Byzantium and the Modern Greek IdentityRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 200 pages Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning of this heritage, in its various aspects, has hitherto been surprisingly little discussed by scholars. This collection of specially commissioned essays aims to present an overview of some of the different, and often conflicting, tendencies manifested by modern Greek attitudes to Byzantium since the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The aim is to show just how formative views of Byzantium have been for modern Greek life and letters: for historiography and imaginative literature, on the one hand, and on the other, for language, law, and the definition of a culture. All Greek has been translated, and the volume is aimed at Byzantinists and Neohellenists alike. |
Contents
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Aspects of modern Greek historiography of Byzantium | 23 |
Paparrigopoulos Byzantium | 10 |
Byzantine law as practice and as history in the nineteenth century | 19 |
Byzantium and the Greek Language Question in the nineteenth century | |
Byzantine literature translated into modern | |
Pope Joan and Roïdiss Greece | |
Papadiamantis ecumenism and the theft of Byzantium | |
equivocal attitudes in the poetry of Palamas | |
from Penelope Delta | |
Papatzonis Seferis and the rehabilitation | |
the NeoOrthodox current of ideas | |
The restoration of Thessalonikis Byzantine monuments and their place in | |
Index | |
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