Actes de Chilandar. I: Des Origines À 1319 [French]

By V Kravari, M Zivojinovic, Ch Giros

Le monast re serbe de Chilandar, fond en 1198 par l'ancien grand joupanNemanja et par son fils saint Sava, a b n fici du soutien des empereursbyzantins et des rois serbes, gr ce auxquels il est devenu un des grandsmonast res de l'Athos. la fin du xiiie si cle, le roi Milutin, gendrede l'empereur Andronic II, a particuli rement contribu l'enrichissement du monast re. Ce premier volume des Actes de Chilandar pr sente tout d'abord de fa ond taill e les sources slaves relatives au monast re pour l' poqueconsid r e, puis l'histoire de Chilandar et celle de son domaine foncierdes origines 1319. Viennent ensuite la description, l'analyse lecommentaire et l' dition de quarante-sept actes grecs. Parmi les quatredocuments donn s en appendice, figurent un faux et trois actes dont letexte grec est perdu et qui ne sont connus que par une traduction slave.Tous les documents sont reproduits dans un album de soixante-huitplanches phototypiques. Parmi ces documents, qui sont de types tr s vari s, signalons laremarquable s rie de chrysobulles conserv s en original, souventaccompagn s de leur bulle d'or, d livr s par Andronic II et par lescoempereurs Michel IX et Andronic III. The Serbian monastery of Chilandar was founded in 1198 by the formerGreat Zupan Nemanja and his son Saint Sava. Thanks to the support ofByzantine emperors and Serbian kings, it became one of the greatmonasteries of Mount Athos. At the end of the thirteenth century, KingMilutin, son-in-law of Emperor Andronikos II, greatly contributed to themonastery's economic growth. This first volume of Actes de Chilandar begins with a detailedpresentation of Slavic sources pertaining to the monastery for theperiod under consideration, and of the history of Chilandar and his landestate from the origins until 1319. This is followed by the description, analysis, commentary and edition of forty-seven Greek documents. Of thefour documents given in an appendix, one is a fake and three are actswhose Greek version has been lost and which are only known in Slavictranslation. All documents are reproduced in an album of sixty-eightphototype plates. Among these documents, which are quite diverse in kind, special mentionis to be made of the remarkable series of chrysobulla, preserved in theoriginal and often featuring the gold bulla, which were issued byAndronikos II and the co-emperors Michael IX and Andronikos III.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2283604206
• ISBN13: 9782283604205
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 383 Pages