Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεώτερη και Σύγχρονη Ελληνική ΙστορίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Παρασκευάς Κονόρτας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαρία Ευθυμίου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Βασιλική Σειρηνίδου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ο ορθόδοξος Κλήρος μέσα από τα εν Ελλάδι ιεροδικαστικά έγγραφα: Μία σκιαγράφηση της δράσης του στην οθωμανική επικράτεια, 17ος αι. - 1763.
Translated title:
The Greek Orthodox Clergy through the documents of kadi courts: An adumbration of its work in the ottoman territory, 17th century- 1763.
Summary:
The purpose of this dissertation is the study of the Greek Orthodox Clergy as it is presented through the documents of the kadi courts. Its time span is the period between the 17th century when we have the first surviving records of kadi courts and 1763 when significant changes in the administration of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople took place. Geographically, the dissertation focuses on Crete, Thessaloniki and Veroia. The writing was based on the translations of the original ottoman records with the editing of I. Vasdravelles for Thessaloniki and Veroia. As for Crete, the translations of N. Stavrinides and E. Zachariadou (editing) were used. The dissertation has been organised in two parts: in the first part, which surrounds the primary material bibliographically, we study the notion of justice, the legislature, and the jurisdictional bodies as well as the concurrent law systems of the Ottoman Empire. There is also a reference to the different terms of the subjugation of the areas at issue as well as the possible local differentiations that these terms entail. The second part has been formed based on three thematic cycles that resulted from the cataloguing and processing of the sources. More specifically, the first thematic unit concerns issues related to the temples and the monasteries in the ottoman district. In the second unit we have the private issues of the Clergy and in the last one the relationship between the Clergy and the ottoman administration. The orthodox clergymen sought justice at the local ottoman kadi courts even for cases purely inter-ecclesiastical because of the effectiveness of the institution which was capable of ensuring the executability of its adjudications in contrast to the courts of the ecclesiastical and communal authorities. The study of the documents showcases the multifaceted activity of the orthodox clergymen in the ottoman society. The Clergy operates in various fields, apart from the ecclesiastical one, and maintains constant intercommunication with the rest of the society, both orthodox and muslim. Its members, fully integrated in the ottoman system, appear in the records of the kadi courts as owners of fortune, tax payers, testators, plaintiffs in judicial disputes as well as subjects of numerous financial transactions such as dealings of property or chattel and dealings of their own agricultural goods. The relations between the clergymen and the state can generally be described as relations between a dominant and a taxpaying subject. Although, it could be suggested that the members of the supreme Clergy are excluded from this description and for various reasons they are considered part of the ottoman elite.
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
Greek Orthodox Clergy, clergymen, kadi courts, kadi, justice, Law, Ottoman Empire.
Number of references:
321
