Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Editors’ Preface xi
5. Notes on Contributors xiii
6. Introduction: Greek and Scottish Identities from the Enlightenment to the ‘Age of Revolution’ 1
7. PART I EUROPEAN CONTEXTS
8. 1 ‘UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS’: PROPHECIES AND RUMOURS IN THE AGE OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 17
9. 2 RUSSIA’S BYZANTINE HERITAGE: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MYTHS AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REALITIES 41
10. 3 TRANSLATING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: PEOPLE, COMMITMENTS, TEXTS, METHODS 64
11. 4 ‘THE GRAND SACRIFICE’: VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTION IN ADAMANTIOS KORAIS’S ASMA POLEMISTIRION (1800) 86
12. 5 THE PHILIKI ETAIREIA AND FREEMASONRY: SECRET COMMUNICATION, THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND SOCIAL IDEAS 110
13. PART II SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS
14. 6 ‘FINER THAN THE ACROPOLIS’: EDINBURGH, THE PARTHENON AND THE SCOTTISH GENIUS 143
15. 7 ‘A FAITHLESS TRUANT TO THE CLASSIC PAGE’: SIR WALTER SCOTT, GREEK, GREECE AND THE GREEKS 167
16. 8 THROUGH ‘THE EYE OF AN EXPERIENCED TRAVELLER’: ROBERT WILSON (1787–1871) IN OTTOMAN AND REVOLUTIONARY GREECE 209
17. 9 THOMAS GORDON AND THE GHOST OF TRIPOLITSA: A STUDY IN PRIVATE CONFLICT AND PUBLIC RELATIONS 250
18. 10 GEORGE FINLAY AND THE GREEK REVOLUTION OF 1821: THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT AND TRANSNATIONAL LIBERALISM IN REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE 275
19. 11 GEORGE FINLAY, THE FOUNDING FIGURES OF GREEK NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ICONOCLAST EMPEROR LEO III: BYZANTINE PARATEXTS OF REVOLUTION 303
20. 12 EDWARD MASSON: CALEDONIAN WITNESS TO THE FORTUNES OF MODERN GREECE 327
21. 13 JOHN STUART BLACKIE AND THE PRONUNCIATION OF ANCIENT GREEKJ 353
22. AFTERWORD PARALLEL LIVES AT THE LIMITS OF EUROPE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND NATION-BUILDING IN SCOTLAND AND GREECE 373
23. INDEX 391