RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 2004-2010 MONOGRAPHS Ioli Vigopoulou, Le Monde Grec Vu Par Les Voyageurs Du Xvie Siècle, IRN/FNRS, Collec
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1 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 2004-2010 MONOGRAPHS Ioli Vigopoulou, Le monde grec vu par les voyageurs du XVIe siècle, IRN/FNRS, Collection "Histoire des Idées" - 4, Athens 2004, 514 p. The central theme of this study is the Greeks’ economic activities and their daily life, as seen through the eyes and works of travellers of the 16th century, and as these subjects were recognized, recorded and published for the reading public. Its main axis is the critical treatment of the testimonies and not a simple record of information. For the purposes of this study, a 16th century travelogue is considered to be the written chronicle by any traveller who traversed the land or recounted data and events in the areas where there were Greeks in the period under scrutiny. 115 such travellers were selected, from the third decade of the 15th century until the early 17th. All the travellers and their texts are compared with Pierre Belon, as much for the traveller-figure as in regard to his product-chronicle. The main axis of the approach to the sources was the necessary filtering of descriptive testimonies, having as parameters the subjective character on the one hand of each traveller and text, and on the other hand the objective conditions of writing and provision of these data. It begins with introducing the persons-travellers and continues with the treatment by the traveller of the experience of the journey, the perception of the area and population distribution. There follows an analysis of the testimonies on the economic activities of Greeks (agriculture, stock breeding, fishing, mining, trade), daily life (occupations- professions, dwelling, clothing, nutrition, customs and manners, the women) and general judgements of their conduct and religious faith. Each subject is not handled as documented in the opinion of the travellers, and each traveller is instead treated (persona and works) in regard to each query. The data are cited per geographic region, a position permitting multiple comparisons, whether of subjects of economic or of social life. The work is completed by an extensive Appendix: 115 maps show each traveller’s routes, with easily intelligible and accurate depiction of the manner of acquisition and delivery of the information regarding Greeks; a selection of texts with complete excerpts in the language of the source complement – wherever considered necessary – the analysis of significant and curiosity-arousing records; it ends with fifty tables of illustrations and a general and thematic index. Conclusions refer to: the geographic areas, the subjects researched; the Greeks taking part in the activities studied; the travellers themselves and their chronicles. The comparative juxtaposition of the above unveils a fragmentary and deficient picture of Greeks through the texts of 16th century travellers, whether of their social or economic life. *** Panagiotis D. Michailaris O Aφορισμός. H προσαρμογή μιας ποινής στις αναγκαιότητες της Tουρκοκρατίας [Excommunication. The adaptation of a punishment to the exigencies of Ottoman rule], INR/NHRF, Series: “Institutions and ideology in modern Greek society” - 60, Athens 2004 (2nd edition), 510 p. 2 This voluminous study attempts to record the range of the rise of the punishment of excommunication, particularly in the period of Ottoman rule. During this period, when political shifts enabled the Eastern Church to strengthen its role of intervention in the administration of justice, the penance of excommunication constituted a tool of the first order. This was because, under ecclesiastical jurisdiction, excommunication was to be effective as a preventive as well as being punitive and by means of which it was possible to ensure the observance of a church decree or to punish the transgressor of the law. At the same time however, through the climate of fear the threat of imposition of this penance created, it also contributed to a considerable degree to consolidation of an adaptation of the mentality of Christians toward certain aspects of good and evil, which had direct implications on their behaviour to each other in their daily relations. The book is in three parts corresponding to the analysis undertaken in each case: Part One presents the external elements of the penance, i.e. the procedure of its publication; the time and manner of its imposition; its price; its revocation; the personalities involved in each instance of the diverse phases, from the demand until its enforcement or abrogation, as well as the diverse kinds of threat brought about by the use of excommunication in a broad spectrum of issues. Part Two examines those elements that relate to the punishment’s results affecting the living or dead excommunicated; the effectiveness or lack thereof of the measure, as well as the spectrum of punishable acts susceptible to provoke its imposition. Part Three follows the course of the punishment through the ages; its incorporation in the private law codes, its use as a dogmatic weapon (miracle) in the Orthodox relations with other dogmas (Catholics, Protestants, Muslims); the recourse of the political power to the services of the punishment, to the efforts for restriction of its use in modern times. The book closes with a comprehensive index. The second edition comprises, in addition to the first: a) ‘A Note to the second edition’ and b) ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’ wherein certain necessary corrections are made and the principal oversights of the first edition are rectified. *** Ioannis Koubourlis La formation de l’histoire nationale grecque. L’apport de Spyridon Zambélios (1815-1881), IRN/FNRS, Collection "Histoire des Idées" - 5, Athènes 2005, 380 p. The book examines the formation of Greek national history within the pioneer work of Spyridon Zambelios. It focuses on his contribution to the efforts of Greek historians of the 19th century to attribute to the history of Greece a national character, to establish its “mutation” to a “history of the Greek nation from its origins to the present”. After having examined a) the works of Greek intellectuals who announce the national historiography of Zambelios b) his attachment to the historical conception of the French romantics, the book analyzes his contribution to establish a philosophy or rather an ontology of history, a methodology of research and a periodization of the historical time that are going to legitimate the transition to a “history of the Greek nation”: this nation is now considered not only as the main agent of historical action – within a linear and homogenous, “national”, time – but also as the object of every research into Greek history. The book particularly insists on the political and ideological character of Zambelios’ work that can be reduced to an effort to reorganize the historical culture of his people; for the two poles of this culture, the Orthodox imaginary and the Enlightenment, because of their pre-national and proto-national (respectively) characters, were incompatible with the historical conception imposed by the nationalism of Zambelios. 3 *** Magda M Kitromilidou Η εφημερίδα ΠΑΦΟΣ της Κύπρου [The newspaper PAPHOS in Cyprus, 1921-1950], Foreword by Loukia Droulia. Introduction by Petros Papapolyvios, INR/NHRF, Series: Library of the Encyclopaedia of the Greek Press - 1, Athens 2005, 530 p. The first in the series Βιβλιοθήκη Εγκυκλοπαίδειας του Ελληνικού Τύπου, 1784-1996 (Library of the Encyclopaedia of Greek Press, 1784-1996), this publication is a product of the eponymous programme, a product that came about spontaneously when the programme’s committee addressed the philologist Magda M Kitromilidou, requesting her to write the entry for the Paphos newspaper. A systematic researcher into the Cypriot Press, particularly for the period of British rule, the author was very familiar with this publication from her native town, Paphos, from previous studies of hers, specifically from her book entitled Το Μικρασιατικό Ζήτημα στην εφημερίδα ΠΑΦΟΣ της Κύπρου [The Asia Minor Question in Cyprus’s PAPHOS newspaper (Nicosia 1994)]. Instead of a simple entry, the programme was provided with an entity containing hundreds of handwritten pages that comprised a very interesting and useful indexation/selection of the long life of this newspaper. With indicative references, summaries and frequent unedited quotations from the regular columns, Magda M Kitromilidou summarizes the principal issues presented by the newspaper in the period from 1921 to 1950, which was so crucial for the course of the island’s history. The problems of foreign policy and diplomacy; of domestic administration; education – wherein the writer herself was actively involved – issues of the Church and culture; of sports and efforts for modernization of the technology sector among others, ever centred on the question of Enosis (Union with Greece) and the various ways it was accordingly dealt with, succeed one another succinctly in the pages of the volume. Cyprus’s history of that period is thus reflected, also its minor history, its daily life, all this, naturally, presented mainly from the viewpoint of the scholarly lawyer and journalist, the conscientious citizen and patriot Loizos Philippou (1895-1950) who was the newspaper’s publisher, as well as its editor-in-chief for most of the time. The main body of book is preceded by an introduction by University of Cyprus Professor Petros Papapolyvios, who enhances the significant role played by Paphos in Cypriot society. The book is illustrated with portraits of eminent personalities-protagonists in national issues, monuments