the crisis over the Eastern Church in the era of the Crimean War /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jack Fairey
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 283 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Reason in Exile: The War for orthodox christendom -- 2. A Patriarch's Progress: The Great Church under Grigrios VI -- 3. Ponsonby vs the Patriarch: Orthodoxy and European Diplomacy -- 4. 'The Great Game of Improvements': Resid Pasa and Reform -- 5. A Cossack Takes the Cross: Prince Menshikov's Crusade -- 6. Ambassadors of Peace: Recasting Ottoman Christendom -- 7. 'A Complete Revolution': The Great Church & the Great Powers
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"During the mid-19th century, the Orthodox Christians of the Middle East found themselves at the centre of a bitter struggle for control between five empires - Russia, Britain, France, Austria, and the Ottoman government itself. This book traces the history of the international crisis over Orthodox Christendom from its origins in the 1820s-1830s to its partial resolution in the 1860s. It explains how and why the temporal powers exercised by the Orthodox Church led to an escalating series of diplomatic confrontations that reached their acme in the 1850s with the outbreak of the Crimean War and a concerted campaign by the Great Powers to secularize and laicize the non-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Crimean War, 1853-1856-- Religious aspects-- Christianity