Podwójny łacińsko-ruski dokument z Medyki (1404) – przejaw polityki językowej w powiększonej Koronie
[ 1 ] Ośrodek Historii Kultury Materialnej Średniowiecza i Czasów Nowożytnych, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk | [ P ] pracownik
EN Double Latin-Ruthenian document from Medyka (1404) – a manifestation of language policy in the enlarged Crown of Poland
2024
artykuł naukowy
polski
EN In 1404, a court was held, att ended by 31 representatives of the nobility of Red Ruthenia, a country recently incorporated into the Crown of Poland. The judgement was writt en in two parallel documents, issued in Latin and Ruthenian. The two parchments were joined and sealed together. The unique form of the double diploma raises the question, for what purpose were two versions issued that were diff erent in language but identical in content and equivalent in substance? An att empt at an answer is preceded by a consideration of the circumstances of the case, including an analysis of the composition of the nobility sitt ing in court. The list of arbitrators in both versions was arranged in two groups. One of the included newcomers arriving in Ruthenia from the West, the other natives – local boyars. They belonged to two separate cultural circles, the Western, Catholic, and the Eastern, Orthodox. The culturally diff erent issuers performed together, but preserving their own literary traditions. The document may stand as a testimony to the simultaneous use of both languages and alphabets in the era following the annexation of Red Ruthenia. The fact that it was drawn up in two languages is justifi ed by the choice of Ruthenian and Cyrillic as an alternative language and script of the new power in the region; the separation of the issuers is due to the cultural duality of the Red Ruthenian nobility; the joint authentication of equivalent versions corresponds to the status equation of knights and boyars. The bilingualism and digraphia of offi cial literacy are attested by other, but already single documents issued in Ruthenian between 1350 and 1430.
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