Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods, Ottoman

  • Corinth and its Revolution

    Corinth and its Revolution

    This recent piece at the Greek Reporter — War and a Greek City: Corinth and its Revolution — discusses Greece’s Independence Day on March 25 from the perspective of the battle between Ottomans and Greeks over and around Corinth in 1822, when “Corinth” was Ancient Corinth, not the modern city to its northeast. News pieces on…

  • 2015 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Medieval-Modern Periods

    This fourth installment in a series of bibliographic reports for 2015 focuses on post-antique bibliography. Download the report as PDF here: CorinthianStudies_2015_Medieval-Modern The first three 2015 Bibliographic Reports: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods Roman-Late Antique Periods Judaism, Christianity, and New Testament Studies

  • Hadji Mustafa

  • Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Brummett)

    This new book on the Ottomans published by Cambridge University Press should inform our readings of the sizable corpus of 16th to early 19th century traveler accounts to the Corinthia. The work considers how European maps, travel itineraries, and accounts of the eastern Mediterranean served to appropriate territory and construct an image of the Ottoman against classical and biblical imagery: Brummett, Palmira. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and…

  • Coming Soon: Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium (Gerstel)

    Landscape approaches to the Byzantine world are still uncommon these days despite the increasing integration of regional approaches into ancient and medieval studies generally. It is gratifying, then, to see that another work dedicated to the subject of Byzantine landscapes will be out in print this month. Sharon Gerstel’s book looks delightful  in its combination…

  • 2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Byzantine-Modern Periods

    This is the third in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014: See Monday’s post for further information about the sources of this bibliography See  Tuesday’s post for Prehistoric-Hellenistic period See Wednesday’s post for the Roman era This list contains new scholarship broadly related to the Corinthia in the…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 2

    Here is the second part to last week’s post about new scholarship in the last three months. You can find the full collection of articles and books related to Corinthian studies at the Corinthian Studies Zotero Page. If you don’t see URLs for articles and books below (they sometimes don’t transfer in the copy), visit…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

    With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December 2012)

    Now that the dust has settled on 2012, I release this final CSM issue for the last month of the year. By the end of the January, I’ll post some year-in-review lists for different categories of scholarship. As always, the best place to start for recent Corinthian scholarship at this site is the modern library…

  • Medieval and Ottoman Portages

    Medieval episodes of portaging the Corinthian Isthmus are unsurprisingly scant. The only account cited with any frequency is the remarkable portage of Niketas Ooryphas’ in AD 872. The portage is disputed, but the historical records for the account are certain. Two other supposed medieval portages turn out to be dead ends. In an article titled…