Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 by Panos Sophoulis

Author:Panos Sophoulis
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030559052
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

154Life of Savas (Theodosios), 31–32, 65–67; Life of Savas (Domentijan), 136–138, 183–184 (two episodes reported in St Savas’ Lives: in the first, the young prince was allegedly captured by pirates en route by boat from Vatopedi to the Great Lavra. With the help of an elderly monk, Savas managed to make good his escape, although for the release of his companions a heavy ransom was demanded. Elsewhere, the two Lives inform us about attacks on the monasteries of Ksiropotamos and Karakallou, which occurred during Savas’ stay at Athos, that is, between 1192–1205/6. In the course of these attacks, all the monks were rounded up and sold as slaves); Actes de Dionysiou, 8 (a series of raids on Mount Athos launched by Turkish pirates, who took many captives. These events are recorded on a document dated to 1345); Actes de Docheiariou, 172–178, no. 24 (four Athonite monks captured by pirates in the Strymonic Gulf); Life of Dionysios of Athos, 58 (capture of the abbot of the monastery of Philotheou Theodosios and several other monks in 1348. They were sold as slaves in Bursa but were later ransomed by pious Christians); Life of Gregory Palamas, 535–536 (capture of Gregory Palamas and his companions near Kallipolis). The events which led to his captivity, as well as his impression of his Turkish captors, Palamas himself describes in a long letter that survives in three manuscripts; see Sahas 1980; see also Arnakis 1951, 104–118. Furthermore: Life of Dionysios of Athos, 64–65 (Turkish raid on the Athonite monastery of Dionysou, during which all of its monks were enslaved. They were ransomed by the founder of the monastery, St Dionysios); Life of Niphon, 19, 26 (capture of the monk Ioannikios and his companions—other monks trying to collect the sum of money required for paying the ransom); Life of Gregory of Sinai , 368 (Gregory was forced to leave the Holy Mountain because of the incursions of Turkish brigands and pirates, who found the hermitages an easy hunting ground, ambushing monks and carrying them off as slaves). For several other examples see Živojinović 1980, 112–114. For a discussion, see also Oikonomides 1997, 6–7; Mergiali-Sacha 2010.

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