Actes de Vatopédi. III: de 1377 À 1500 [French]

By Christophe Giros, Vassiliki Kravari, Jacques Lefort

Le troisi me et dernier volume des Actes de Vatop di, quicontient les actes datant de 1377 1500, est l'un des plus remarquablesde la collection des Archives de l'Athos . Le mat riel documentaire dumonast re de Vatop di pour cette p riode est exceptionnellement riche etil claire des sujets souvent mal connus, tels que la confiscation desdomaines monastiques par les Byzantins apr s 1371, la situation enMac doine apr s sa reconqu te par Constantinople en 1403, et le statutdes monast res athonites et de leurs biens apr s la premi re et ladeuxi me conqu te ottomane de la Mac doine, dans les ann es 1380 et1420. Le volume commence par une introduction sur l'histoire dumonast re et sur son domaine foncier durant la p riode consid r e.Viennent ensuite la description, l'analyse, le commentaire et l' ditionde 99 actes grecs, pour la plupart in dits, ainsi que de deux acteslatins. On trouvera galement des analyses comment es de 8 actes slaveset de 38 actes ottomans, ainsi qu'une note sur les biens du monast red'apr s les registres fiscaux ottomans de la fin du XVe et du d but duXVIe si cle. Un index g n ral d taill vient clore le volume. Enfin, unalbum s par de 100 planches fournit les reproductions des documents dit s et de deux sceaux.

The thirdand final volume of the Actes de Vatop di, including thedocuments dating from 1377 to 1500, is one of the most significant ofthe "Archives de l'Athos" series. The documentary material of themonastery of Vatopedi for this period is exceptionally rich and shedslight on a number of often little-known topics, such as the confiscationof monastic estates by the Byzantines after 1371, the conditions inMacedonia after Constantinople reconquered the province in 1403, and thestatus of the Athonite monasteries and their properties after the firstand the second Ottoman conquest of Macedonia, in the 1380s and 1420s, respectively. The text volume begins with an introduction on themonastery's history and real estate in the period in question. This isfollowed by the description, summary, commentary and edition of 99 Greekdocuments, most of them published for the first time, as well as of twoLatin documents. The volume also includes summaries and commentaries of8 Slavic and 38 Ottoman documents and a study on the monastery'sproperties as known from the late 15th- and early 16th-c. Ottoman taxregisters. Finally, the reader will find a very detailed general index.A separate album of 100 plates contains reproductions of the editeddocuments and of two seals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 9042939443
• ISBN13: 9789042939448
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.