I propose in the present article to mention the additions which have been made during recent years to our knowledge of the medieval, Turkish and modern periods of Greek history, especially by the Greeks themselves. In the fifth edition of Paparregopoulos' standardHistory of the Greek Nation, edited and continued by Professor P. Karolides, we have an account of the whole history of the Greeks from prehistoric times down to the annexation of Thessaly and Arta in 1881. The editor, who sat in the Turkish parliament and is particularly strong in all that regards the Moslem world, has, by large additions to the text and by footnotes, brought the classic masterpiece of his author up to date, while for the first time this work is illustrated and indexed. In the general field of medieval Greek history theAnnual of the Society of Byzantine Studies, which first appeared in 1924, has published a number of articles by Greek specialists, while theByzantinisch-Neugriechische Jahrbücherof Professor Nikos A. Bees, started at Berlin in 1920, has been published since 1926 in Athens, where a similar periodical,Helleniká, edited by Professors Amantos and Kougeas, is announced. The local medieval and modern history of Epeiros is being collected in theEpeirote Chronicles, of which two volumes and a biographical supplement have appeared; that of Thrace in the similar periodical,Thrakiká, of which one complete volume has been issued. Dr Franz Dölger has produced two instalments of theCorpus der griechischen Urkunden des Mittelalters und der neueren Zeit, planned by Krumbacher, and giving German summaries of documents from 565 to 1204, andBeiträge zur Geschichte der byzantinischen Finanzverwaltung besonders des10.und11.Fahrhunderts. Messrs A. E. R. Boak and James E. Dunlap have contributedTwo Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administrationon “The Master of the Offices” and “The Office of the Grand Chamberlain” respectively toThe University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series(vol. XIV, New York, 1924).
(Peri)Textuality and a Skyscraper of Footnotes: Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou as Translated by Julian Barnes
