International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

CHANCERIES AND DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES 
IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE (13
TH
–15
TH
 CENTURIES)
Conveners: 
Stanoje Bojanin
, 
Kyrill Pavlikianov
, 
Mirjana Živojinović
Stanoje Bojanin
, 
The Joint Charter of the Branković Brothers (1364/1365) 
and the Magnate Chancery in the Nemanjić State
Neven Isailović
,
 
Diplomatic Practice in Medieval Bosnia – Between Domestic and Foreign Influences
Miloš Ivanović
, 
Immunity Formulas in the Charters of Prince and Despot Stefan Lazarević
Tamara Matović, 
Concerning Diverse Legal Significance of a Document in the Byzantine Private Law
Nebojša Porčić
, 
The Serbian Imperial Chancery in Documents of the Dubrovnik Corpus
Kyrill Pavlikianov
, 
False Chrysobull Attributed to Tsar Stephen Dušan in the Archives of the Athonite Monastery of 
Zographou (Date in the Text April 1346, actually Falsified between 1366 and 1378)
Viktor Savić
, 
A Closer Determination of Document Names in Serbian Monastic Charters 
of the 12
th
–14
th
Centuries
Žarko Vujošević
, 
Die Rolle der Geistlichkeit in der Verfassung serbischer mittelalterlicher Urkunden
Dragić M. Živojinović
, 
Diplomatic Practice of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom: A(n Im)Possible Reconstruction?
Mirjana Živojinović
, 
Les actes grecs traduits en ancienne serbe

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Stanoje Bojanin
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, Serbia; 
[e-mail]
The Joint Charter of the Branković Brothers (1364/1365) 
and the Magnate Chancery in the Nemanjić State
A recent discovery shows that the so-called charter of Lord Vuk Branković (Chilandar 58 
and 59) is a compilation of transcripts of two documents issued by the members of the Branković 
family in different time period (S. Bojanin). That is, the short part of Lord Vuk’s document (late 14
th
century) was inserted in the text of the joint charter issued by the same Vuk and his brother Grgur 
several decades earlier. This paper investigates an unexamined formulary of the Branković brothers’ 
joint charter and considers it as a type of a formulary that could be characteristic to the magnate 
chancery in medieval Serbia. A diplomatics analysis shows us how the vassal-suzerain relationships 
were officially represented in the documents of а nobleman’s chancery during the reign of Stephan 
Uroš, the Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks (1355‒1371) and probably earlier in the Nemanjić state.