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Zakonopravilo
The Nomocanon of Saint Sava (Serbian Cyrillic: Номоканон светог
Nomocanon of Saint Sava
Саве), known in Serbian as Zakonopravilo (Законоправило) or
Zakonopravilo
Krmčija (Крмчија), was the first Serbian constitution and the highest
Krmčija
code in the Serbian Orthodox Church, finished in 1219. This legal act was
well developed. St. Sava's Nomocanon was the Civil law and its basic
purpose was to organize continuation and functioning of the Serbian
kingdom and the Serbian church.
Contents
History
Legacy
See also
References
Sources
First page of St. Sava's
Further reading Nomocanon, 1262 manuscript
Created 1219
Zakonopravilo is inseparably connected with gaining the religious independence. Saint Sava, probably, brought to
Nicaea already written nomocanon, when he went there in 1219 to request independence for the Serbian church from
the Patriarch of Constantinople. It is hardly to believe that Patriarch would have accepted the creation of Serbian
independent church, before he had seen the nomocanon book that would regulate the functioning of the new church.
After that, on his way back to Serbia, Saint Sava spent short time in Thessaloniki where he completed the nomocanon.
It is most likely that he began the work on the Serbian nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using the
Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Nomocanon in 14 Titles, Ecumenical Councils'
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documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos
and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of
Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors's Novellae (most
were taken from Justinian's Novellae).
Legacy
During the Serbian Revolution (1804) priest Mateja Nenadović established Zakonopravilo as the code of the liberated
Serbia. It was also implemented in Serbian civil code (1844). Zakonopravilo is still used in the Russian, Bulgarian,
and Serbian Orthodox Church as the highest church code.
See also
Medieval Serbian law
Serbian manuscripts
Medieval Serbian literature
References
1. Šarkić, Srđan. "The Concept of Marriage in Roman, Byzantine and Serbian Mediaeval Law" (http://www.doiserbia.n
b.rs/img/doi/05849888/2004/058498880441099S.pdf) (PDF). [www.doiserbia.nb.rs doiSerbia]. Belgrade, Serbia:
National Library of Serbia. Retrieved 20130606., originally published in Šarkić, Srđan. "Појам брака у римском,
византијском и српском средњовековном праву" (http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=05a8bf8
ecabf4d409652b7bc324e2f7d&articleId=a540cd8fe8964520a90031da799a07fe) [The Concept of Marriage in
Roman, Byzantine and Serbian Mediaeval Law]. Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta [Byzantine Studies].
Belgrade, Serbia: Vizantološki Institut (41): 99–103. OCLC 225433680 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225433680).
Retrieved 20130606. (subscription required)
2. "Dusanov Zakonik" (http://www.dusanovzakonik.com/indexe.html). Dusanov Zakonik. Retrieved 20130606.
Sources
Šarkić, Srđan (1996). Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo (https://books.google.com/books?id=BxQlAQAAIAAJ)
[Medieval Serbian law]. Matica srpska. (in Serbian)
Zorić, Petar (2006), Законоправило Светога Саве и правни транспланти (https://web.archive.org/web/201109301
83520/http://www.alanwatson.org/sr/petarzoric.pdf) (PDF) (in Serbian), Alan Watson, archived from the original (htt
p://www.alanwatson.org/sr/petarzoric.pdf) (PDF) on September 30, 2011
Further reading
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Grozdić, Borislav D. (2010). "Nomokanon of St. Sava concerning murder in the war". Theoria. 53 (4): 87–104.
doi:10.2298/THEO1004087G (https://doi.org/10.2298%2FTHEO1004087G).
Petrović, Miodrag M. (1997). "Zakonopravilo svetoga Save o Muhamedovom učenju". Manastir Svetog arhiđakona
Stefana.
Petrović, Miodrag M. (1995). "Pomen bogomilababuna u Zakonopravilu svetoga Save i crkva bosanska". Manastir
Svetog archiđakona Stefana.
Petrović, Miodrag M. (1990). "O Zakonopravilu ili Nomokanonu svetoga Save: rasprave". Kultura.
Petrović, Miodrag M. (1983). "Krmčija Svetoga Save o zaštiti obespravljenih i socijalno ugroženih". Narodna
biblioteka Srbije.
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