Can we speak Greek?
Alexander Bevilacqua: Martin Crusius’s Project, 3 April 2025
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius
by Richard Calis.
Harvard, 301 pp., £33.95, February,978 0 674 29273 4 Show More
by Richard Calis.
Harvard, 301 pp., £33.95, February,
“... new arrival presented an opportunity to learn about the Greeks and their language. Eventually, as Richard Calis writes, Crusius ‘compiled the period’s richest record of Greek life under Ottoman rule’. In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece, Calis reconstructs Crusius’s efforts to learn about modern Greece from his ... ”
