“Aiding the Greek Rebel Infidels”: Insights from the Ottoman Archives on Lord Byron’s Missolonghi Mission
ENGLISH STUDIES, cilt.106, sa.7, ss.1-18, 2025 (AHCI)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 106 Sayı: 7
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/0013838x.2025.2566701
- Dergi Adı: ENGLISH STUDIES
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, Humanities Abstracts, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, DIALNET
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-18
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In contrast to the extensive body of research in European sources on the various political-economic, social-cultural and ethical subtleties of Lord Byron’s involvement in the Greek War of Independence, there has been a dearth of studies exploring the Ottoman perspective on the issue. This has stemmed primarily from the fact that Ottoman archival documents on Byron’s activities in Greece have so far remained untranslated. This article is the first full-fledged and extended attempt to fill this lacuna where those Ottoman archival documents on Byron are transcribed, translated, and critically interpreted. Taking four intelligence reports from the Ottoman archives as its focal point, this article not only examines the Ottoman Empire’s hitherto unsurveyed alertness to Byron’s political, economic, and military support to the Greeks, particularly in Missolonghi, but also elucidates the general Ottoman perception of philhellenism.