The theme of this book is a Greek island society in the course of the seventeenth century, as it emerges from the surviving notarial sources. More specifically, it deals with the people of the island of Naxos and their interaction with the land and with each other. Based on my doctoral thesis, it is the result of years of extensive study, during which the scope and perspective of my investigations had to be redefined several times
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