Kyriaco Nikias
Biographic Data
| ID | 3094344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyriaco Nikias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyriaco |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikias |
| SIGNATURE | NIKIAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3769-8866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Order, Language, and Property
Since the earliest Ancient Greek written records from the Mycenaean palaces (ca. 1450–1200 BC) contain no laws, contracts, or judicial decisions, some scholars have considered them unsuitable evidence for legal historical study. Yet this large body of administrative documents reveals much about the operation of the land regime and the interaction of property relations with the central power of the palaces. This article offers a treatment of the r…
Private legal practice and public authority in early Venetian Ithaca
The Greek notarial documents produced in the centuries after the fall of Byzantine rule are important sources for retracing the development of private legal practices under the influence of the different administrative and legal orders which came to rule the Greek-speaking territories. In the vast areas which came under Venetian control, the system of private transactions was conditioned by a tension between the widespread practice of notaries op…
The Venetian Governor’s Palace on Ithaca
The ruins of Venetian-period settlements on Ithaca have been overshadowed by interest in the ancient heritage of the island, particularly by the obsession to locate the palace of Odysseus. Despite the neglect of the early modern built heritage of Ithaca, its study sheds light on the economic and social forces that shaped the spatial and urban experience of Venetian rule. This article surveys a large series of unpublished documentary evidence for …
The archive of the Venetian administration at Ithaca
The Greek state archives recently reopened the local archive at Ithaca. Its prolonged inaccessibility to researchers, and the unclassified and uncatalogued state of most of its records, has meant that sources from its large Venetian collection remain unstudied. This article describes the formation and development of the Ithacan archive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This archive was established to serve the island's governors an…
The Governors of Venetian Ithaca
The historiography of Venetian Greece has paid little attention to the colonial experience of Ithaca. While historians are served by extensive published documentary evidence for the administrations of the larger possessions in the region, the uncatalogued Venetian records at the state archive of Ithaca remain unstudied. The recent reopening of this archive has finally made it possible to survey its large Venetian collection and to provide an acco…
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357– ca . 1600)
Whereas the presence of class divisions in the larger Ionian islands has been well studied, the character of society in smaller Ithaca under Latin rule has been largely ignored. This article examines the evidence for social structures in Ithaca before and after its Venetian capture. Under the rule of the Tocco, the only nobles on Ithaca were the Galati, a family granted privileges for service to the court. The continuation of these privileges int…
Law & Culture
The Renewal of the Old
As we approach Justice Lionel Murphy’s 100th birthday on 30 August 2022, this article explores and renews a significant aspect in the jurisprudence of this truly radical judge: the social relations or progressive view of property. Justice Murphy both identified and judicially expounded this view well before the American social relations or progressive schools. And rather than merely identifying it as some intellectual museum piece, the article al…
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357– ca . 1600)
Whereas the presence of class divisions in the larger Ionian islands has been well studied, the character of society in smaller Ithaca under Latin rule has been largely ignored. This article examines the evidence for social structures in Ithaca before and after its Venetian capture. Under the rule of the Tocco, the only nobles on Ithaca were the Galati, a family granted privileges for service to the court. The continuation of these privileges int…
The Renewal of the Old
As we approach Justice Lionel Murphy’s 100th birthday on 30 August 2022, this article explores and renews a significant aspect in the jurisprudence of this truly radical judge: the social relations or progressive view of property. Justice Murphy both identified and judicially expounded this view well before the American social relations or progressive schools. And rather than merely identifying it as some intellectual museum piece, the article al…
Law & Culture
The Renewal of the Old
As we approach Justice Lionel Murphy’s 100th birthday on 30 August 2022, this article explores and renews a significant aspect in the jurisprudence of this truly radical judge: the social relations or progressive view of property. Justice Murphy both identified and judicially expounded this view well before the American social relations or progressive schools. And rather than merely identifying it as some intellectual museum piece, the article al…
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357– ca . 1600)
Whereas the presence of class divisions in the larger Ionian islands has been well studied, the character of society in smaller Ithaca under Latin rule has been largely ignored. This article examines the evidence for social structures in Ithaca before and after its Venetian capture. Under the rule of the Tocco, the only nobles on Ithaca were the Galati, a family granted privileges for service to the court. The continuation of these privileges int…
The Governors of Venetian Ithaca
The historiography of Venetian Greece has paid little attention to the colonial experience of Ithaca. While historians are served by extensive published documentary evidence for the administrations of the larger possessions in the region, the uncatalogued Venetian records at the state archive of Ithaca remain unstudied. The recent reopening of this archive has finally made it possible to survey its large Venetian collection and to provide an acco…
Private legal practice and public authority in early Venetian Ithaca
The Greek notarial documents produced in the centuries after the fall of Byzantine rule are important sources for retracing the development of private legal practices under the influence of the different administrative and legal orders which came to rule the Greek-speaking territories. In the vast areas which came under Venetian control, the system of private transactions was conditioned by a tension between the widespread practice of notaries op…
The Venetian Governor’s Palace on Ithaca
The ruins of Venetian-period settlements on Ithaca have been overshadowed by interest in the ancient heritage of the island, particularly by the obsession to locate the palace of Odysseus. Despite the neglect of the early modern built heritage of Ithaca, its study sheds light on the economic and social forces that shaped the spatial and urban experience of Venetian rule. This article surveys a large series of unpublished documentary evidence for …
The archive of the Venetian administration at Ithaca
The Greek state archives recently reopened the local archive at Ithaca. Its prolonged inaccessibility to researchers, and the unclassified and uncatalogued state of most of its records, has meant that sources from its large Venetian collection remain unstudied. This article describes the formation and development of the Ithacan archive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This archive was established to serve the island's governors an…
Order, Language, and Property
Since the earliest Ancient Greek written records from the Mycenaean palaces (ca. 1450–1200 BC) contain no laws, contracts, or judicial decisions, some scholars have considered them unsuitable evidence for legal historical study. Yet this large body of administrative documents reveals much about the operation of the land regime and the interaction of property relations with the central power of the palaces. This article offers a treatment of the r…
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