Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This book offers a fresh perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger European Republic of Letters.
Historians have long speculated on the role played by the
Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in
Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The present
volume offers a new perspective on this
subject through an examination of the Greek
Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its
relationship to the larger European Republic
of Letters. Scholars of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Europe will gain access in
these pages to rare and in some cases never
before translated works from the time period;
works that offer fresh and far-reaching
insights into the nature, origin and
development of nationalist movements.