DESPOT JOHN UGLJEŠA AND THE ATHONITE MONASTERY OF SIMONOPETRA
DESPOT JOHN UGLJEŠA AND THE ATHONITE MONASTERY OF SIMONOPETRA
Author(s): Cyril PavlikianovSubject(s): History, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, Greek Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries, History of Religion
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Mount Athos; Lemnos; Simonopetra; Jovan Uglješa; Koumoutzina (Komotini).
Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinizes the content of a chrysobull allegedly promulgated by the Serbian Despot of Serrhai, Jovan Uglješa (1360 – 1371), for the Athonite Monastery of Simonopetra. The original of this act is lost and its only surviving variant is a confirmed copy authenticated by the Constantinopolitan Patriarch Cyril I Loukaris in 1623. The patriarchal confirmative charter offers the reader a text presumably issued by John Uglješa 359 years earlier, i.e. 1264. Starting from this evident discrepancy, the article analyses the text of Loukaris’s corroborated copy and argues which elements of this counterfeit are plausible and could be accepted as genuine and which could not. For better understanding of the Greek original, the full text of Loukaris’s charter is diplomatically published at the end of the article.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 169-195
- Page Count: 27
- Language: English
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