The great powers and Orthodox Christendom: the crisis over the Eastern Church in the era of the Crimean War
"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 Orth...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| In: | Jahr: 2015 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Histories of the sacred and secular 1700-2000
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Balkanhalbinsel
/ Naher Osten
/ Osmanisches Reich
/ Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Internationale Politik
/ Geschichte 1820-1871
B Krimkrieg / Religiöser Konflikt / Christentum / Orientalische Frage / Europa / Imperialismus / Osmanisches Reich / Ostkirche / Geschichte / Orthodoxe Kirche / Theologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Europe
Politics and government 1848-1871
B Crimean War, 1853-1856 Religious aspects Christianity B Eastern Question |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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".. |
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| ISBN: | 1137508450 |