THE CHRONICLE OF THE PRIEST OF DUKLJA IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES.

In this article I try to show the multidivisional structure of the work known as The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja (Ljetopis Popa Dukljanina) by looking at the model rulers depicted in the text. Each of these figures came from a different European tradition and connects the chronicle to the historiography of different regions of Central and Southeastern Europe. Motifs of Moravian, Czech and Hungarian origin, stories known from the northern parts of Dalmatia and local tales from the Dubrovnik area provided a foreground to Duklja-dedicated section of the story, introduced by the figure of St. Vladimir. In this article, I mainly try to appreciate the elements of fiction in the medieval text and by referring to the various traditions of Central European historiography to show its intertextual environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]