Book Description

This volume marks the beginning of an initiative undertaken by the “Mount Athos Studies Laboratory” at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation to publish in full – with a generous sponsorship by the Athanasios and Marina Martinos Foundation – the Ottoman documents of Mount Athos, an invaluable source for the early modern history of the Holy Mountain and for the history of the Greek Lands and the Ottoman Empire more broadly. The present edition brings together the sixteenth-century Ottoman documents preserved in the archive of the Monastery of Simonopetra on Mount Athos. These records shed important light on the history of the monastery and its properties under Ottoman rule, including invaluable evidence concerning its restoration after the devastating fire of 11 December 1580.