Open AccessWere Byzantine monks of the 13th-15th centuries holders of imperial grants?
Author(s) -
Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi1350629m
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , serbian , ancient history , history , classics , byzantine studies , art , philosophy , linguistics
A small number of imperial grants to monks appear in the Byzantine sources from the late 13th to the 15th centuries, and mainly in the 14th, before the Serbian expansion in Macedonia. Especially privileged with the right of bequeathal and dedication, they were given later to the monastery to which each of the monks belonged, mostly to the Serbian monastery of Chilandar in Athos. Due to characteristic differences they represent a special category between the pronoiai of laymen and the oikonomiai of monasteries