Greece, the Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule From the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence (54 page)

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Chapter 15: Hunger and Disease (pp. 157–66)

 

For food crises see Kóstas Kostís,
Aphoría, Akrívia kai Pína
(Crop Failure, Cost of Living and Famine). The three outstanding studies of Greek rural life are Richard and Eva Blum,
Health and Healing in Rural Greece
and
The Dangerous Hour
; and John Campbell,
Honour, Family and Patronage.
For malaria see W.H.S. Jones,
Malaria and Greek History
.

1
 Vacalopoulos,
A History of Thessaloniki
, p. 106, n. 1

2
 Mazower,
Salonika
, p.117

3
 Jones, p. 115

4
 Jones, p. 117

5
 Jones, pp. 118–19

6
 Papadopoulos,
The Greek Merchant Marine
, p. 340

7
 Stoneman, ed.,
A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
, London, 1984, p. 243

8
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 353

9
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 48

10
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 129

11
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 157

12
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 168

13
 Campbell, p. 322

14
 Campbell, p. 347

15
 Campbell, p. 331

16
 Blum and Blum,
Dangerous Hour
, p. 378

Chapter 16: Travellers to Greece (pp. 167–83)

 

Two excellent surveys of the travellers to Greece are David Constantine,
Early Greek Travellers and the Hellenic Ideal
; and Olga Augustinos,
French Odysseys
. Also invaluable is Terence Spencer,
Fair Greece Sad Relic.
References to Lithgow are to
Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations
, a version of his
Totall Discourse
edited and abridged by B.I. Lawrence, and for a biography of Lithgow see C.E. Bosworth,
An Intrepid Scot
. Richard Chandler’s account is in the two volumes, published together in 1817 as
Travels in Asia Minor and Greece
, and Chandler references are to these two volumes unless specified as Chandler, ed. Clay.

1
 Augustinos, pp. 54, 55

2
 Augustinos, pp. 68, 69, 76

3
 Lithgow, p. 17

4
 Lithgow, p. 134

5
 Lithgow, p. 197

6
 Lithgow, p. 101

7
 Lithgow, p. 75

8
 Titus, i, 12, Corinthians I, vi, 9–10

9
 Spencer, p. 12

10
 Spencer, p. 10

11
 Busbecq,
Turkish Letters
, 4th letter, p. 161

12
 Busbecq,
Turkish Letters
, 3rd letter, p. 77

13
 Spencer, p. 106

14
 Constantine, p. 24

15
 Spencer, p. 133, n. 2

16
 Augustinos, p. 64

17
 Constantine, p. 29

18
 Constantine, p. 31

19
 Spencer, p. 132

20
 Constantine, p. 32

21
 Augustinos, p. 108, Spencer, p. 136

22
 Spencer, p. 135

23
 Constantine, p. 222, n. 8

24
 Spencer, pp. 78–9

25
 Augustinos, p. 89

26
 Augustinos, p. 121

27
 Constantine, p. 188

28
 Chandler, ed. Clay,
Travels in Asia Minor
, p. x

29
 Chandler, ed. Clay,
Travels in Asia Minor
, p. 6

30
 Chandler,
Asia Minor
, p. 59

31
 Chandler,
Asia Minor
, p. 56

32
 Chandler,
Asia Minor
, p. 149

33
 Chandler,
Asia Minor
, p. 149

34
 Chandler,
Asia Minor
, p. 328

35
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 8

36
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 11

37
 Chandler,
Greece
, pp. 29–30

38
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 142

39
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 133

40
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 135

41
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 235

42
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 316

43
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 199

44
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 163

45
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 225

46
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 223

47
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 277

48
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 230

49
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 167

50
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 251

51
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 305

52
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 158

53
 Chandler,
Greece
, p. 275

Chapter 17: 1770 – The Orlov Revolt (pp. 184–95)

 

A detailed account of the Orlov revolt is in Gritsópoulos,
Ta Orlophiká
(The Orlov Revolt). For the background see Finkel,
Osman’s Dream
; and Shaw and Shaw,
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
, vol. I. For travellers to Greece see Constantine, Augustinos and Spencer as for Chapter 16.

1
 Gritsópoulos, pp. 41–2

2
 Gritsópoulos, p. 58

3
 Gritsópoulos, p. 52

4
 Gritsópoulos, pp. 72, 81

5
 Gritsópoulos, p. 99

6
 Gritsópoulos, p. 117

7
 Gritsópoulos, p. 122

8
 Hasiótis,
Metaxí
, pp. 220–1

9
 Gritsópoulos, p. 132

10
 Gritsópoulos, p. 140

11
 Gritsópoulos, p. 157

12
 Gritsópoulos, p. 169

13
 Spencer, p. 183

14
 Constantine, p. 172

15
 Spencer, p. 186

16
 Constantine, p. 174

17
 
Aeneid
, bk IV, l. 625

18
 Augustinos, pp. 152, 153

19
 Augustinos, p. 149

20
 Augustinos, p. 156

Chapter 18: Greeks Abroad (pp. 196–208)

 

The main sources are Jonathan Harris,
Greek Emigrés in the West
; Chrístos Zaphíris,
Valkánios Pramatevtís
(Balkan Trader); and ed. Stelios A. Papadopoulos,
The Greek Merchant Marine.

1
 ‘Whatever subsidy their conscience dictated’, Harris, p. 191

2
 Harris, p. 167

3
 Zaphíris, p. 281

4
 Zaphíris, p. 249

5
 Zaphíris, p. 255

6
 Vacalopoulos,
The Greek Nation
, p. 268

7
 Vacalopoulos,
The Greek Nation
, p. 268

8
 Papadopoulos, p. 60

9
 Papadopoulos, p. 57

10
 Papadopoulos, p. 56

11
 Ogg,
Europe of the Ancien Regime
, London, 1965, p. 147

12
 Papadopoulos, p. 99

13
 Howe,
An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution
, p. 64

14
 Papadopoulos, p. 389

Chapter 19: Greeks and the Enlightenment (pp. 209–24)

 

This chapter as a whole is much indebted to George P. Henderson,
The Revival of Greek Thought.
See also the books by K.T. Dhimarás and by Paschális M. Kitromilídhis, both entitled
Neoellinikós Dhiaphotismós
(Greek Enlightenment); and L. Theocharides,
The Greek National Revival and the French Enlightenment
. Other works on Rígas and Kora

s are C. Perrevós,
Síntomos Viographía tou Aïdhímou Ríga Pheréou
(Short Biography of Rígas Pheréos of Blessed Memory); C.M. Woodhouse,
Rhigas Velestinlis
; and K. Notarás,
O Patriotikós Agónas tou Kora

(The Patriotic Struggle of Kora

s). For extracts from the writings of both Rígas and Kora

s see R. Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
.

1
 Quoted in Cassirer,
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
, Princeton, 1951, p. 251

2
 Henderson, p. 52, n. 26

3
 Henderson, p. 48

4
 Henderson, p. 54

5
 Henderson, p. 71

6
 Theocharides, p. 41; Henderson, p. 96

7
 Henderson, p. 92

8
 Theocharides, p. 48

9
 Henderson, p. 107

10
 Henderson, p. 111

11
 Henderson, pp. 102–3

12
 Perrevós, p. 30; Woodhouse,
Rhigas Velestinilis
, p. 16

13
 Woodhouse,
Rhigas Velestinilis
, p. 33

14
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, pp. 149–50

15
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 157

16
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 155

17
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 157

18
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 160

19
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 162

20
 Perrevós, pp. 13–15

21
 Perrevós, pp. 16–17

22
 Woodhouse,
Rhigas Velestinlis
, p. 110

23
 Woodhouse,
Rhigas Velestinlis
, pp. 137–8

24
 Perrevós, p. 28

25
 Hobhouse, quoted in Marchand,
Byron: A Portrait
, London, 1971, p. 75

26
 Dhimarás, p. 334

27
 Kitromilídhis, pp. 253, 257–60

28
 Kitromilídhis, p. 270

29
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 127

30
 Kitromilídhis, p. 268

31
 Notarás, pp. 26–7

32
 Notarás, pp. 13–14

33
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, pp. 129–30

34
 Clogg,
The Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 130

35
 Woodhouse,
Capodistria
, pp. 502–3

Chapter 20: The Enlightenment Attacked (pp. 225–34)

 

References to Voltaire’s
Dictionnaire Philosophique
are to the translation by Theodore Besterman entitled
Philosophical Dictionary
– referred to below as
Dictionary
. Other references are as for Chapter 19.

1
 
Dictionary
, p. 11

2
 
Dictionary
, ‘Religion’, pp. 356–7

3
 
Dictionary
, ‘Théiste’, p. 386

4
 
Dictionary
, ‘Morality’, p. 322

5
 
Dictionary
, ‘Tyranny’, p. 398

6
 
Dictionary
, ‘Laws’, pp. 284–5

7
 
Dictionary
, ‘Tolerance’, p. 387

8
 
Dictionary
, ‘Torture’, p. 396

9
 Augustinos, p. 136

10
 Augustinos, p. 139

11
 Augustinos, p. 140

12
 Augustinos, p. 145

13
 Augustinos, p. 60; Dhimarás, p. 150; Henderson, p. 74

14
 Dhimarás, p. 157

15
 Dhimarás, p. 162; Theocharides, pp. 229, 242

16
 
IEE
, vol. XI, p. 132

17
 Henderson, pp. 183–4

18
 Dhimarás, p. 156

19
 Clogg,
Movement for Greek Independence
, pp. 56–64

20
 Notarás, p. 16

21
 Clogg,
Movement for Greek Independence
, pp. 87–8

22
 Clogg,
Movement for Greek Independence
, pp. 204–5

23
 Romans, xiii, 1–2

24
 Clogg,
Movement for Greek Independence
, p. 207

25
 
Kolokotrones
, tr. Edmonds, London, 1892, p. 127

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