The Kingdom of the Slavs is the abbreviated name of the work of the Dubrovnik Benedictine and historian Mavro Orbini . The full title of the work The Kingdom of the Slavs today is sometimes incorrectly called Sklavoni (l Regno degli Slavi hoggi corottamente detti Schiavoni). It was published in Pesaro 1601.
The kingdom of the Slavs is written in the spirit of the late Renaissance and humanism. The work gives the history of the Slavs as a single idealized nation as a whole with descriptions of heroism, courage and deeds of individuals and groups, from ancient times to the time of the writer. It is a kind of praise to the Slavs.
Orbini used exhibits that in some places have not reached this day, and regardless of the fact that he sometimes lacks material, the work represents significant historical work. It survived many quotes, reprints, translations of parts and subsections, criticism, misunderstanding, and ultimately recognition. It has exceptional significance for the history of medieval Eurasia . The kingdom of the Slavs in 1603 was on the List of banned books, and the reasons lay in the use of banned authors and their works.
The work has survived three major translations and publications with commentaries in the Balkans : German, Belgrade and Zagreb. The Belgrade edition of 1968 with a translation by Zdravko Sundrich and comments by Sima Tsirkovich, and in Zagreb the 1999 edition with a translation of Snezhana Khužić and introductory studies by Francis Saneck.
The work was translated and published in Russian by order of Peter I immediately after its proclamation as emperor in 1721.
The next translation of the book was published in Moscow in 2015 - the cover .
Notes
"Slavic source study", 1965
Literature
- Orbini, Mavro // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional) - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907.