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Wheatcroft, A.,
The Ottomans
, London, 1993.

———
Infidels
, London, 2004.

Woodhouse, C.M.,
Capodistria
, Oxford, 1973.

———
Rhigas Velestinlis
, Límni, 1995.

Yennádhios, ed. L. Petit, X.A. Siderides and M. Jugie,
Oeuvres Complètes de Gennade Scholarios
, 8 vols, Paris, 1928–36.

Zakythinos, D.A.,
Le Despotat grec de Morée
, London, 1975.

Zaphíris, C.,
Valkánios Pramatevtís
(Balkan Trader), Athens, 1998.

Zísis, T.,
Yennádhios B’ Scholários
, Thessalonika, 1980.

 

Plates

 

1 Sultan Mehmed II (ruled 1451–81), the conqueror of Constantinople, and Yennádhios Scholários, the first Greek patriarch under Turkish rule. Their discussions were amicable and wide ranging.

 

2 Sultan Suleyman I (ruled 1520–66), known as ‘the Magnificent’ or ‘the Lawgiver’, school of Titian, c.1530–40, In Suleyman’s reign Ottoman power was at its height.

 

3 Turkish high art. A late-sixteenth-century flask of rock crystal, gold, emerald and ruby.

 

4 By contrast, Turkish torture by bastinado (beating the soles of the feet), from a late-sixteenth-century Austrian illuminated manuscript.

 

5 Boys conscripted by the devshirme, or child-collection, being paraded in their new uniforms. Also Austrian, late sixteenth century.

 

6 ‘Greece – The Wounded Patriot’, by F.P. Stephanoff: a scene from the war of independence. The palm trees in the background suggest that the Greeks are resisting Ibrahim’s 1825 invasion from Egypt. One foreground object is a Bible, and the picture encapsulates the three sources of Greek inspiration – family, religion and fighting spirit.

 

Dressed to kill

7 A Cretan warrior of Sphakiá from the Venetian period.

 

8 A janissary colonel of the early nineteenth century.

 

9 Nikólaos Gízis, ‘Education in the Time of Slavery’, showing the supposedly secret school, with an armed guard in the shadows on the right.

 

10 The Venetian mortar shell that wrecked the Parthenon in 1687.

 

11 A watchful Greek shipmaster and

 

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