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The ''Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'' () is the usual name given to an alleged medieval chronicle written by an anonymous priest from Duklja. Its oldest preserved copy is from the 17th century, while it has been variously claimed by modern historians to have been compiled between the late 12th and early 15th century. Historians have largely discounted the work based on inaccuracies and fiction, nevertheless it contains some semi-mythological material on the early history of the Western South Slavs. The section of ''The Life of St. Jovan Vladimir'', is however believed to be a novelization of an earlier work. ==Authorship and date== The work was allegedly made by an anonymous "priest of Duklja" (''presbyter Diocleas'', known in Serbo-Croatian as "pop Dukljanin"). The work is only preserved in its Latin redactions from the 17th century.〔S. Bujan, ''La Chronique du pretre de Dioclee. Un faux document historique'', Revuedes etudes byzantines 66 (2008) 5–38〕 In modern historiography, there has been various theories on the authorship and date: * Presbyter Rudger (or Rudiger), Cistercian Archbishop of Antivari (modern Bar, Montenegro) 1299–1301. He is thought to have lived around 1300 because the perception of Bosnian borders coincides with an anonymous text, the ''Anonymi Descriptio Europae Orientalis'' (Cracow, 1916), that has been dated to the year 1308.〔Tibor Živković: ''On the Beginnings of Bosnia in the Middle Ages'', 2010; in Spomenica akademika Marka Šunjića (1927-1998), University of Sarajevo, p. 172, (); in the Yearbook of the Center for Balkan Studies of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, p. 155, in Serbian, ()〕 * Some Croatian historians have put forward the theory, of E. Peričić (1991), that the anonymous author was a ''Grgur Barski'' (Gregory of Bar), a bishop of Bar who lived in the second half of the 12th century. The bishopric of Bar was in fact defunct at that time. *In his 1967 reprint of the work, Yugoslav historian Slavko Mijušković stated that the chronicle is a purely fictional literary product, belonging to the late 14th or early 15th century. Mavro Orbin, a Ragusan historian, included the original work, and other works, in his ''Il regno degli Slavi'' (ca. 1601); and then Johannes Lucius in ca. 1666.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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