George A. Vassiadis
Σειρά: Bibliotheca Asiae Minoris Historica
Athens 2007
σσ. 315
Dr. George Vassiadis takes up in this monograph a very important subject, perhaps the single most critical subject in the educational and cultural history of the Orthodox community in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the spectacular growth of the movement of voluntary cultural associations that contributed to the transformation of the intellectual life but also of the collective consciousness of the community. He focuses on the most important of these associations, the famous Syllogos, the Greek literary Association of Constantinople, but through the prism of Syllogos’ history the author recreats for his readers the whole range of cultural changes across Asia Minor, Macedonia and Thrace that exposed a traditional Christian culture in the multiethnic empire to Western influences and through them to the irresistible attractions of the Zeitgeist, the challenge of modernity immanent in nationalism.
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
