{"title":"A “Dynasty” of Hellenists in twentieth-century Bucharest: Demosthene Russo, Ariadna Camariano-Cioran and Nestor Camariano","authors":"Leonidas Rados","doi":"10.12681/HR.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.314","url":null,"abstract":"Romanian academic circles became more interested in the study of Greek-Romanian relations towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth. Demosthene Russo, a young Greek immigrant to Romania, educated at Constantinople, Athens, Berlin and Leipzig, profited from this favourable trend; he managed to establish at the University of Bucharest, after 1915, a powerful centre for Byzantine and Neohellenic research and to impose his own critical school, based upon a rigorous method, in direct competition with the line directed by the most highly acknowledged Romanian historian, Nicolae Iorga, a researcher with many achievements and famous initiatives in South-East European studies. In the interwar period Russo took on the responsibility for the education of his nephew and niece, Nestor and Ariadna Camariano, to whom he transmitted his appetite for detailed research and critical methods in his field and whom he left to continue his work. The three have deeply marked the study of the history of Hellenism; they distinguished themselves, sometimes under unfavourable circumstances, by their valuable scientific production, opening new directions in the cultural history of South-East Europe.","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77711435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ioannis Makriyannis: From History to Anthropology","authors":"T. Veremis","doi":"10.12681/HR.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88918613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nikos Kazantzakis and Travel Writing: Innovating in Poetics and Politics","authors":"Lena Arampatzidou","doi":"10.12681/HR.281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75645784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Establishing the Discipline of Classical Philology in Nineteenth-century Greece","authors":"Sophia Matthaiou","doi":"10.12681/HR.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.279","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the process of establishing the discipline of classical philology in Greece in the nineteenth century. During the period shortly before the Greek War of Independence, beyond the unique philological expertise of Adamantios Korais, there is additional evidence of the existence of a fledging academic discussion among younger scholars. A younger generation of scholars engaged in new methodological quests in the context of the German school of Alterthumswissenschaft. The urgent priorities of the new state and the fluidity of scholarly fields, as well as the close association of Greek philology with ideology, were some of the factors that determined the “Greek” study of antiquity during the first decades of the Greek state. The rise of classical philology as an organized discipline during the nineteenth century in Greece constitutes a process closely associated with the conditions under which the new state was constructed. This paper will touch upon the conditions created for the development of the discipline shortly before the Greek War of Independence, as well as on the factors that determined its course during the first decades of the Greek State.1 Although how to precisely define classical philology as an organized discipline is subject to debate, our basic frame of reference will be the period’s most advanced “school of philology”, the German school. According to one definition that can be deduced from an examination of this very school, the study of ancient literature began to be considered an organized “scientific” discipline from the moment the legitimization of its practitioners exceeded the boundaries of the act of teaching and no longer depended on the effect of their work upon a broad audience but rather on a specialized group of people.2 This turn towards Greek studies was a Pan-European phenomenon, which has been associated with the increasing power of the European middle 1 This text is part of my broader research into the creation of the discipline of classical philology and its progress during the nineteenth century in the context of the new Greek state. 2 Suzanne L. Marchand, Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, p. 23. The data that define the substance of this discipline in the context of Greece constitute a basic objective of my research. The Historical Review / La Revue Historique Institute for Neohellenic Research Volume VIII (2011) http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 06/11/2018 14:59:59 | 118 Sophia Matthaiou class. In some instances, a classical education became the distinguishing characteristic of a rising urban class (England), while, in others, the vehicle that led to national integration (Germany).3 The European investment in Greek studies, combined with the birth of classicism, is, moreover, linked with the “emergence” of Greece in European thinking,4 as well as with the phenomenon of philhellenism","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72747897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Une polémique chez les philhellènes à Genève en 1827. Jean-Guillaume de Lunzi et Frédéric Lullin de Châteauvieux","authors":"M. Bouvier-Bron","doi":"10.12681/HR.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.274","url":null,"abstract":"RésumÉ: En juin 1827 éclatait à Genève une polémique à la suite de la publication d’un article de Frédéric Lullin de Châteauvieux, aristocrate genevois et chroniqueur politique à ses heures. Dans ces “Considérations sur l’état actuel de la Grèce”, Lullin s’en prend violemment aux chefs militaires grecs et à leur esprit de désunion. Quelques jours plus tard, dans un opuscule d’ Observations , Jean-Guillaume de Lunzi (qui réside à Genève de 1827 à 1834) réfute point par point les affirmations de Lullin. Il attaque également le docteur Louis-André Gosse, délégué du comité philhellénique de Genève, arrivé depuis peu dans la tourmente politique de Nauplie et dont les rapports envoyés à Jean-Gabriel Eynard, souvent reproduits dans la presse locale, sont la source de Lullin. Nous avons cherché à dégager les points de vue des trois parties: Gosse, qui consacre deux années intenses de sa vie à la cause grecque; Lullin","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84931839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuances of Irredentism: The Epirote Society of Athens (1906-1912)","authors":"Spyros Ploumidis","doi":"10.12681/HR.280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.280","url":null,"abstract":": The story of the Epirote Society, which was established in Athens in 1906, adds colour to the broader mosaic of irredentism. The account of the Society’s past, especially of its Ioannina branch, given by one of its participants omits several inner aspects and does not offer a comparative perspective. The aim of this paper is to place the history of the Society in a more general context and offer a better understanding of the actions and practices of this particular agent of irredentism. The course that was followed by Greek irredentism in Ottoman Epirus was not an exception but rather a rule in the Balkans at the time. The paper examines critically the Society’s agenda and illustrates certain issues, such as social banditry and the clash between communalism and nationalism, in the light of contemporary academic findings. The other-definition of the Greek nation-building process in the area towards the Albanian national “awakening” is also discussed, while emphasis is placed on the interconnection of these processes with the agrarian question.","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84652175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oracular Prophecy and the Politics of Toppling Ottoman Rule in South-East Europe","authors":"M. Hatzopoulos","doi":"10.12681/HR.278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HR.278","url":null,"abstract":": T is article argues that, after the fall of Constantinople, the religious belief system of the Orthodox community legitimized and, at the same time, challenged the Ottoman status quo. Te prophetic and apocalyptic beliefs of the subjugated community were largely responsible for the ambivalence. Tese beliefs entertained subversive ideas on a communal level that counterbalanced the feelings of accommodation with Ottoman rule. In the age of revolution, the prophetic and apocalyptic beliefs under consideration interacted with the ideals of nationalism, producing noticeable political results. Te first nationalistic movement to erupt in South-East Europe, the Greek one, took advantage of this old set of collective beliefs in order to increase the social dissemination of its own modern and secular political ends. Te article first traces the course of a medieval tradition of prophecy of religio-political character, which existed as part of the general religious framework of Orthodox belief in the Eastern Roman Empire. It then goes on to highlight the social function of the tradition after the fall of Constantinople, as a repertoire of shared mythic beliefs with status reversal properties assuring the faithful that, eventually, the condition of collective subjection would be reversed. Finally, the age of modernity is considered, all the while arguing that the tradition proved advantageous to Greek nationalism insofar as it encapsulated collective beliefs which, thanks to their status reversal meanings and their intrinsic capability for reinterpretation, were useful for making the Orthodox masses more receptive to the nationalist call to arms.","PeriodicalId":40645,"journal":{"name":"Historical Review-La Revue Historique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83267464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}