Premda je huljenje ili blasfemija najbolje poznato iz partikularnih pravnih režima srednjovjekovne i novovjekovne kršćanske Europe, kao pravni institut izvorno je oblikovano u Justinijanovu pravu, a njegova je primjena bila je uvjetovana ispunjenjem precizno određenih pretpostavaka. To je institut evanđeoske i kanonske provenijencije, a u Justinijanovu je pravu izrastao u svjetovni i javnopravni, delictum publicum. Kao dio opće pravne tradicije u srednjemu je vijeku posvuda prihvaćen u partikularnim statutarnim režimima. U ovome članku analizira se huljenje u Vrsarskoj grofoviji, kao omalenu ozemlju koje je stoljećima neprekidno bilo pod vlašću porečkoga biskupa i imalo status crkvene grofovije. Osim huljenja kao općeg crimen, koji se sastoji u verbalnoj pogrdi božanskih i svetačkih osoba, grofovijski je pravni poredak regulirao posebno i realni (opredmećeni) oblik – povredu svetih slika, koja se u statutarnim uređenjima inače pojavljuje iznimno rijetko. Upravo je povreda svetih slika regulirana statutarnim pravilima Vrsarske grofovije predmet analize izložene u ovome članku, a pritom se propituje kontekst njezina uređenja baš u crkvenoj grofoviji te se određuje pravna narav kao delictum speciale u odnosu prema huljenju.Although blasphemy is a well-known phenomenon of the medieval and later particular legal regimes of Christian Europe, it had been institutionalised much earlier – in the Roman law of Justinian’s epoch because its application is conditioned by several accurately defined prerequisites. It is an institute of evangelical and canonical provenance, which in Justinian’s law grew into a lay and public delictum publicum. Because blasphemy was a delict that was part of the universal legal tradition in the Middle Ages, it was regulated in the particular (statutory) regimes of the time throughout Europe. This paper provides an analysis of blasphemy in the County of Vrsar, as a small territory which for centuries had continuously recognised the supremacy of the Bishop of Poreč, for which it had the status of a miniature ecclesiastical State. Besides the classical delict of blasphemy, which consisted of a verbal injury of divine and holy persons, the legal system of Vrsar County also specifically regulated its real (tangible) form – the violation of holy images, which otherwise rarely appeared in statutory provisions. The real (tangible) form of blasphemy was separately and precisely regulated in Vrsar statutory provisions, which forms a central point of analysis in this paper. The analysis puts forth not just the normative aspect of the delict, but also the whole context of its regulation in the county of ecclesiastical provenance. The authors determine the legal nature of such a delict as the delictum speciale of blasphemy, which is much more common in the statutory provisions in Istra and the whole of the Eastern Adriati
