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The strange case of the Turkish and Venetian judges in eighteenth-century Mani wall paintings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

John Chapman
John Chapman*
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Investigating church wall paintings in Mani, Greece, the author identified a common theme of the Ainoi, the graphic interpretation of Psalms 148–150. Within this scheme there is often a specific depiction of the ‘Judges of the Earth’ as an Ottoman judge and a Venetian nobleman. This depiction is unique to Mani and is restricted to the mid-eighteenth century and those areas of Mani dominated by the rule of the kapetanoi. The paintings allude to the lack of established legal systems in that period of Mani’s history and refer back to times of stable law under Ottoman and Venetian rule.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 2006 , pp. 151 - 166
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2006

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1 The author owes many debts of gratitude in the development of this paper, but two individuals need especial recognition: Bob Barrow and Professor Anthony Bryer. The former and I fretted enjoyably over the field evidence, and without the latter’s unstinting encouragement and guidance this paper would never have seen this academic light of day.

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