Cyril Pavlikianov. The Athonite Monastery of Vatopedi from 1462 to 1707

   Based on several field trips to mount Athos, the present monograph examines and publushes the texts of seventy post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic documents kept in the monastery of Vatopedi. The author makes an attempt at restoring the monastery's history from the fall of Byzantium up to the year 1707 commenting many interesting details ot Vatopedi's social and cultural relations with the Balkans, the Near East, Italy and Russia.

Table of contents

Bibliography and list of abbreviations

Journals and series of sources

Sources, monographs and articles

Vatopedl's archive from the late 15th to the 17th century

The Slavic charter of Despot John Ugljesa

Vatopedl's early Ottoman privileges

Vatopedi and Peritheorion

Vatopedi and the Protaton

Vatopedi and the church of St. George at Zyrme near Naupaktos

Vatopedi and Melnik

Vatopedl's property in the peninsula of Kassandra

Vatopedl's property at Prosphorion

Vatopedi and the tower of Kaletzi

Vatopedi and the monastery of Kochliaras

Vatopedi and the monastery of Pantokrator

Vatopedl's fishery at Rosomites

Vatopedi and Serrhai

Vatopedl's property in Thessalonica

Vatopedi and the church of St. Paraskeue of Koumanitze

Vatopedi and the monastery of Esphigmenou

The restoration of the Cenobitic order on Vatopedi

Vatopedl's estate at the village of St. Mamas

Vatopedi and the chapel of George Poudaios in Mideia

The payment of the Moldavian voevode Aaron Tiranul

The property inventories of 1596—1610

Vatopedi and Ochrid

Vatopedi and the village of Karytze in Thessaly

Vatopedi and Filaret, patriarch of Russia

Vatopedi and Trebizond

Vatopedi and Revenikeia

Vatopedi and the bishop of Hierissos

Vatopedi and Kastoria (Kostur)

 Vatopedi and the monastery of Mavros Molos on the Bosphorus

Vatopedi and Venice

Vatopedi and the bishop of Amathous and Kition Kosmas

Vatopedi and Lemnos

Vatopedi and Agathoupolis

Vatopedi and Moldavia

Difficulties of the Athonite acts

Conclusions

The new documentary evidence

List of the acts

List of the illustrations

Plates

Index

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