Short chronicle on the Venetian conquest of Morea (1683-1690)

Persons

Agorastos, Theophylaktos [† after April 1729]
Author
Nanetti, Andrea | URL
Editor

Publication Type

Codex Chronicle

Language

Modern Greek

Date

1728-1729

Description

Short chronicle on the “liberation of Peloponnese from the tyranny of the Agarenes” written in spoken Greek by priest Theophylaktos Agorastos, in the monastery of Zerbitsa (near Mistra), between June 1728 and April 1729. It starts with the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottomans and ends with the Venetian conquest of Monemvasia, in August 1690.

Library

Monastery of Iviron |

Other Version

La conquista della Morea nella cronaca breve del prete Teofilatto Agorastò (1683-1690)

Notes

Mount Athos – Monastery of Iviron – uncatalogued manuscript found and edited by Andrea Nanetti (ff. 185-187r). The manuscript also includes a Nomocanon, that is, a collection of ecclesiastical laws as well as notes on an earthquake (April 1729), on outbursts of plague (April 1729, March 1719), and on the price of cereals and of bread (1728-1729). It also includes tables for dating the religious feasts (June 1733) and a list of heresies.

Keywords

Short chronicle , Venetian conquest of Morea , Agarenes , 1683 siege of Vienna , Venetian conquest of Monemvasia , uncatalogued manuscript , Nomocanon , earthquake , plague , lists

Geographic Keywords

monastery of Zerbitsa, Mount Athos, Iviron, Mistra

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