Naslov
Diocletian’s villa in Late Antique and Early Medieval historiography: a reconsideration

Autori
Basić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe: 20 Years of Research: knjiga sažetaka / / - Zagreb : Međunarodni istraživački centar za kasnu antiku i srednji vijek (MICKAS), 2013, 14-15

Skup
Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe: 20 Years of Research

Mjesto i datum
Poreč, Hrvatska, 02.10.2013. - 06.10.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Split; Diocletian's palace; Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; historiography; villa; palace; terminology

Sažetak
The author analyzes the terminology used to denote Diocletian's palace at what is today Split in Late Antique and Early Medieval written sources: Eutropi Breviarium (369 AD), Hieronymi Chronicon (381 AD), Epitome de Caesaribus (395 AD), Prosperi Tironis epitoma chronicon (mid 5th c.), Chronica Gallica (511 AD), Chronicon Marcellini (534 AD), and De administrando imperio (mid 10th c.). He analyzes the value of historic material in Jerome’s additions to Eusebius’ Chronici canones. Furthermore, he deals with the value of Jerome’s expression palatium villae, and the latter making or not a part of the real late Roman terminology. The oldest toponomastic confirmations of the name that was to become the urbonym of Split origin from the manuscript heritage of Jerome’s Chronicle. Two, possibly even three, oldest confirmations of Jerome’s addition to the Eusebius’ Chronicle give the location of Diocletian’s death in various ways: in villa sua Spalato, in villae suae palatio (and, possibly, in villa sua Aspalato). Information on Diocletian’s death belongs to Jerome’s additions to the Eusebius’ Chronici canones created by using the so called Kaisergeschichte, compiled in 337 or 357. The responsibility for adding these information is with Jerome. Reviewing the filiation of the oldest Chronicle manuscripts shows that the formulation in villae suae palatio in no way could have resulted in the formulation in villa sua Spalato or in villa sua Aspalato, but that it only could have happened in the other way round. This oversight occurred with one of earlier rewriters of Jerome, between 380s and the mid 5th century. The original form recorded in the Kaisergeschichte was in villa sua Spalato. The variant readings such as in villae suae palatio enable insight into the contemporaries’ ideas who held similar syntagms to be valid. The word villa for Diocletian's palace in the late Roman written sources does not refer to the edifice ; it refers to a rural surrounding. Palatium, as a part of the villa, semantically perfectly fits into the 5th century context, when such formulation was used by Jerome’s transcribers. By the noun villa they actually meant a property, i.e. imperial property surrounding its monumental centre, the palatium (Diocletian's palace).

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Engleski

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