Diplomatic, Commercial and Family Networks in the early Modern Aegean.

Описание: Anna Athanasouli, PhD Candidate, University of Crete
Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library
Fr. Markos Foskolos, Parish of Kioura Kardiani, Tinos
Alexandre Massé, Université Toulouse
Eleftheria Zei, University of Crete

About the lecture:

The Gennadius Library has recently received as a gift an archive of private and state documents donated to the library by descendants of the family of Louis Brest, who was French vice-consul on the island of Milos in the 19th century. The archive consists of letters and other material dating from 1770 to the early 20th century. The archive has been digitized, classified and catalogued by historian Anna Athanasouli, a doctoral student at the University of Crete.

The event will situate the Brest Family Archive within broader research on the early modern Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean and will serve as an occasion for discussion on consular institutions in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Greek Archipelago. The discussion will consider the role of consuls and vice-consuls, at once members of local notability and commercial and political agencies of different European powers in the early modern Levant.

Both presentations and discussion will be in Greek.