The public history of the Greek Revolution: “The Battle of the Square”
What would the 1821 Revolution look like if it was rendered in sketches? How would a graphic novel’s approach to
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1821 in academia
How did the academic community mark the bicentenary of the 1821 Revolution? What directions and themes did academic research, and more specifically historiography, take in view of this important commemoration? Our goal is to record the academic conferences, lectures and discussions, but also the publishing activity of academics, occasioned by the bicentenary both domestically and abroad. Thus we aspire to identify the modern historiographical trends in relation to the revolution in order to answer the above questions.
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Memoirs of the revolution
Memoirs are a special category of historical sources. They move between memory and the desire of historicisation and compose an
Read moreThe public discourse on the bicentenary: The democratic tradition of the revolution
Newspapers are one of the important means to shape express and shape public discourses on history. Particularly on anniversaries or
Read more21 Stories about 1821
How do anniversaries affect the way in which we think about a historical event? National anniversaries are not only manifestations
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Philhellenism and new perspectives (part three): The Greek Revolution as a global event
“The revolution of the Greeks as news or a spectacle, as an encouraging message or as a reality … became
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The 1821 Greek Revolution as a timeless thematic in modern Greek literature: From Dionysios Solomos to the first post-war generation
The 1821 Revolution and its influence on modern Greek literature was a topic explored during the celebratory publications, articles and
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Philhellenism and new perspectives (part two): Philhellenism, antiquarianism and national identity
The first part of this article [1] covered some new perspectives of the rhetoric of philhellenism, which were connected to
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Philhellenism and new perspectives (part one): Philhellenism, liberalism and the burden of the Enlightenment
The rich publishing activity of the academic community concerning the 1821 bicentenary included one of the most important and
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The Ottoman dimensions of 1821
The statement that the Greek Revolution of 1821 had Ottoman dimensions may sound surprising initially. However, both the struggle and
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Academic research and new themes on 1821
The growing demand for history and memory, since the end of the 20th century, indicates the desire for the management
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