New evidence regarding the early history of the Monastery of Vatopedi (Mt Athos): unpublished sigillographical material
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Christos Stavrakos
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Dimitrios Liakos
Abstract
This paper deals with an unpublished lead seal was found during the excavation works within the chandler’s workshop of Vatopedi, a later structure which was added to the eastern face of the bell tower (1427). The seal names a Constantine, chartoularios and epi tou patriarchikou sekretou and dates back to 10th till early 11th century. It is one of the rare direct sources regarding the very early period of the monastery, from which we have no other information, and serves to highlight the attention which the central ecclesiastical administration placed upon it already from the first years after its founding. It also shows the vibrant activities of its monks and their notable network of contacts with high-ranking political and ecclesiastical officials in the capital.
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- Inhalt
- Siglenverzeichnis
- I. ABTEILUNG
- Style et idéologie. De la version longue à la version brève de la Vie de Jean l’Aumônier, due à Léonce de Néapolis
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- Socrates the judge: a not-so-platonizing dialogue on the deposition of patriarch Nicholas IV Mouzalon
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