Joseph Naci, his locotenente Francesco Coronello, and the State of the Duchy of the Archipelago (Naxos), 1566-1579
Date
2017
Authors
Hendrickx, Benjamin
Sansaridou-Hendrickx, Thekla
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Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Abstract
This article examines the duchy of the Archipelago under Joseph Naci and Francesco Coronello, leading to the abolition of the duchy, which was created in 1204 after the occupation of Constantinople by the crusaders. The duchy, which survived the final fall of
Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, came itself to an end with the death of Joseph Naci in 1579 and its transformation into an Ottoman sancak. Nevertheless, some Byzantine and mainly medieval ‘Frankish’ institutions and titles did survive. This article studies the legal, institutional and practical implications of this process, thereby paying due attention to elements of continuity of feudal ‘Frankish’ institutions and traditions as well as to its gradual
replacement with the Ottoman system. However, the new world order of the sixteenth century, which drastically changed the existing values and worldviews, had an inevitable influence on the Mediterranean lands, even on backwaters such as the Archipelago. This article shows how even Naxos could not escape these changes.
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Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION , Duchy of the archipelago , Ottoman empire , Byzantine studies
Citation
Benjamin Hendrickx and Thekla Sansaridou-Hendrickx, 'Joseph Naci, his locotenente Francesco Coronello, and the State of the Duchy of the Archipelago (Naxos), 1566-1579', Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 27 (2017): 23-52