Reevaluating the institutional autonomy of 14th century Mount Athos under the Ottomans: The “confiscation issue” concerning Athonian landholdings in post-Byzantine Macedonia
The dependances of the monasteries of Mount Athos, from the emergence of the Athonian monastic community, constituted a unique and particular institution which had certain legal characteristics; it was recognized by both the Byzantine and the post-Byzantine legal order and was always respec...
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| Language: | Bulgarian |
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Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2024/0584-98882461253N.pdf |
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| Summary: | The dependances of the monasteries of Mount Athos, from the emergence of the
Athonian monastic community, constituted a unique and particular institution
which had certain legal characteristics; it was recognized by both the
Byzantine and the post-Byzantine legal order and was always respected by
every sovereign in the history of Mount Athos. These features were that they
constituted the property of each monastery, according to its legal type as a
foundation of Byzantine-Roman law; they could come from any legal cause and
be subject to ratification or recognition, directly or indirectly, by an
imperial act and had a privileged character and enjoyed special protection,
rendering them inalienable. The Byzantine institution of monastic dependance
institutionally and historically influenced the development of the kinship
institution of the Ottoman and Islamic vakif, and it is known that the
Ottomans recognized and protected the dependances, especially those of the
Athonite monasteries. The opinions regarding the alleged confiscations of
dependances of Athonian monasteries during the early period of Ottoman rule,
around the end of the 14th century, are incorrect. The study examines in
detail the cases of two dependances of the Zographou monastery in 1392, one
dependance of the Esphigmenou monastery from 1388 and some dependances of
the Vatopedi monastery, based on two documents (from 1404 and 1408) from its
archive. |
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| ISSN: | 0584-9888 2406-0917 |