The Birth of a Nation-State — Season 1, Episode 4: Education and the Role of the Church
Documentary • 50 min • 1 season, 14 episodes
Episode synopsis
Under the Ottoman rule, a long period of intellectual darkness began in Greece. With almost all educated people and scientists having fled to Europe, the difficult work of the preservation of Greek letters fell on the Church.
About The Birth of a Nation-State
Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A docudrama series that presents the course of Hellenism over the four centuries of Ottoman rule.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Towards the Fall of Constantinople
- E2Sacred War
- E3Administration and Economy in Ottoman Greece
- E5Language and Culture
- E6Everyday Life in Ottoman Greece
- E7Pre-Revolutionary Movements
- E8Intellectuals’ Struggle & the Greek Diaspora
- E9The Way to Revolution
- E10The Greek Revolution (Part 1)
- E11The Greek Revolution (Part 2)
- E12Sea and Revolution
- E13Free Greece and Kapodistias