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Battle For Bodies, Hearts And Minds In Postwar Greece - Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn In Thessaloniki, 1946-1951

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 This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil.
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Greek Eyes On Europe - The Travels Of Nikandros Noukios Of Corfu

by John Muir

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 This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century.
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Music, Language And Identity In Greece - Defining A National Art Music In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

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 This volume brings together experts who investigate the links that connect music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek paradigm. Through the study of the Greek case, the book paves the way for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the formation of the â€˜nationalâ€™ in different cultures.
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Greek Medical Literature And Its Readers - From Hippocrates To Islam And Byzantium

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 This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition.
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Cyprus From Colonialism To The Present: Visions And Realities - Essays In Honour Of Robert Holland

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 <p>This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert Holland’s own history writing was concentrated for many years. The essays analyse British rule in Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and especially the transition to independence; the coverage, however, also incorporates the post-colonial era and the construction of present-day dilemmas. The Cypriot experience intertwines with Anglo-Hellenic relations generally, so that a section of the book is devoted to those aspects that have been central to Robert Holland’s sustained contribution. The essays explore, inter alia, historiography, social history, economics, politics, ideology, education and the 2013 financial crisis. Taken as a collection the essays serve as an appropriate tribute to Robert Holland as well as an innovative addition to the existing historiography of colonial and post-colonial Cyprus. They will be of great interest to anyone interested in Imperial and Commonwealth History, Anglo-Hellenic relations and the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.</p>
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Byzantine Women - Varieties Of Experience 800-1200

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 This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly ''masculine'' fields of operation. This new research across a range of disciplines attempts to provide an analysis of the activities of and attitudes towards Byzantine women in this period. Using evidence from sources as diverse as tax registers, monastic foundation documents, twelfth-century novels, historical texts, art history and the writings of women themselves, such as the hymnographer Kassia and the historian Anna Komnene, these papers elucidate the context in which Byzantine women lived. They emphasize the variety of female experiences, the circumstances that shaped women''s lives, and the ways in which individual women were perceived by their society. Contributions focus on women''s dress, their participation in the street life of Constantinople, their appearance in Byzantine fiscal documents, their monastic foundations, their engagement with entertainment at the imperial court, and the way heroines are portrayed in the Byzantine novels. Analysis of the writings of the hymnographer Kassia, the networking of Mary ''of Alania'' and the ways she overcame the disadvantages of being a foreign-born empress, and the family values reflected in Anna Komnene''s Alexiad, draw attention to specific problems. All these aim to expand our understanding of the circumstances that shaped women''s lives and expectations in the Middle Byzantine period and to analyze the range of women''s experiences, the roles they played and the impact they made on society.
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Socrates In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

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 Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated of all ancient thinkers. This book gives an Introduction summarizing the reception of Socrates up to 1800, and describing scholarly study since then. It also features the inclusion of Cold War Socrateses, both capitalist and communist.
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Greco - The Cretan Years

by Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes e Translated By John C. Davis

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 Presents an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six. This title provides an assessment of earlier research on Crete of the 16th century then goes on to present conclusions on the life of El Greco deriving from the author's reading of Venetian archive material.
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Byzantium And The Modern Greek Identity

by David Ricks e Paul Magdalino

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 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.
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Authority In Byzantium

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 Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture, an invisible force that underpinned the Byzantine state and maintained its existence across so many centuries, binding people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities together. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central.
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Alexandria, Real And Imagined

by Anthony Hirst e Michael Silk

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 Offers a portrait of an extraordinary city as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants and by outsiders, from the time of its foundation in the 4th century BC up to the 20th century. As the capital of a Hellenistic kingdom, then as a major city in the Roman, Byzantine and Arab empires, Alexandria was renowned as an intellectual city.
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Personification In The Greek World - From Antiquity To Byzantium

by Judith Herrin

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 Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form. Some have only fleeting incarnations, others become widely-recognised figures, and others again became so firmly established as deities in the imagination of the community that they received elements of cult associated with the Olympian gods. Though often seen as a feature of the Hellenistic period, personifications can be found in literature, art and cult from the Archaic period onwards; with the development of the art of allegory in the Hellenistic period, they came to acquire more ''intellectual'' overtones; the use of allegory as an interpretative tool then enabled personifications to survive the advent of Christianity, to remain familiar figures in the art and literature of Late Antiquity and beyond. The twenty-one papers presented here cover personification in Greek literature, art and religion from its pre-Homeric origins to the Byzantine period. Classical Athens features prominently, but other areas of both mainland Greece and the Greek East are well represented. Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power. The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, indicating the ubiquity of the phenomenon in the ancient Greek world.
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Greek Civil War - Essays On A Conflict Of Exceptionalism And Silences

by Thanasis D. Sfikas

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 Half a century after the civil war which tore apart Greek society in the 1940s, the essays in this volume look back to examine the crisis. They combine the approaches of political and international history with the latest research into the social, economic, religious, cultural, ideological and literary aspects of the struggle.
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Digenes Akrites - New Approaches To Byzantine Heroic Poetry

by David Ricks e Roderick Beaton

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 Called variously the â€™Byzantine epicâ€™, the â€™epic of Modern Greeceâ€™, an â€™epic-romanceâ€™ and â€™romanceâ€™, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world.
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Socrates From Antiquity To The Enlightenment

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 Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated of all ancient thinkers. This volume gives an introduction surveying the ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and the state of the 'Socratic question'. It also covers the Socrates from Late Antiquity to medieval times.
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Byron: The Poetry Of Politics And The Politics Of Poetry

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 ''It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.'' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service of the revolutionary cause. For a poet whose life and work are interlaced with action of multiple sorts, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Byron''s engagement with issues of politics. This volume brings together the work of eminent Byronists from seven European countries and the USA to re-assess the evidence. What did Byron mean by the ''poetry of politics''? Was he, in any sense, a ''political animal''? Can his final, fateful involvement in Greece be understood as the culmination of earlier, more deeply rooted quests? The first part of the book examines the implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts; the second interrogates the politics inherent or implied in Byron''s poems and plays; the third follows the trajectory of his political engagement (or non-engagement), from his abortive early career in the British House of Lords, via the Peninsular War in Spain to his involvement in revolutionary politics abroad.
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John Ii Komnenos, Emperor Of Byzantium - In The Shadow Of Father And Son

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 John II Komnenos ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 1118 to 1143. Why has John been neglected by modern historians? What new historical evidence can lead to a reassessment of the achievements his reign? This book presents a chronology of the major events and a series of maps to guide the reader to the rediscovery of this emperor and his reign.
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Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities

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 While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an important cultural and material process. This is surprising, given that Modern Greece and photography are almost peers: both are cultural products of the 1830s, and both actively converse with modernity. Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities fills this lacuna. It is the first inter-disciplinary volume to examine critically and in a theorised manner the entanglement of Greece with photography. The book argues that photographs and the photographic process as a whole have been instrumental in the reproduction of national imagination, in the consolidation of the nation-building process, and in the generation and dissemination of state propaganda. At the same time, it is argued that the photographic field constitutes a site of memory and counter-memory, where various social actors intervene actively and stake their discursive, material, and practical claims. As such, the volume will be of relevance to scholars and photographers, worldwide. The book is divided into four, tightly integrated parts. The first, ’Imag(in)ing Greece’, shows that the consolidation of Greek national identity constituted a material-cum-representational process, the projection of an imagery, although some photographic production sits uneasily within the national canon, and may even undermine it. The second part, ’Photographic narratives, alternative histories’, demonstrates the narrative function of photographs in diary-keeping and in photobooks. It also examines the constitution of spectatorship through the combination of text and image, and the role of photography as a process of materializing counter-hegemonic discourses and practices. The third part, ’Photographic matter-realities’, foregrounds the role of photography in materializing state propaganda, national memory, and war. The final part, ’Photographic ethnographiesâ
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When Greeks And Turks Meet - Interdisciplinary Perspectives On The Relationship Since 1923

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 This book addresses a gap in scholarly literature by bringing together specialists from different disciplinary traditions - history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature, ethnomusicology and international relations - so as to examine the complex relationship between the culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.

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