The Black Book of 1821

Two hundred years later, the study of the original sources, the excommunication circulars and the counter-revolutionary action of the patriarchate, leaves no room for misinterpretation.
This book contains a useful collection of such texts, published during the period 1798-1828. The detection of these historical records is still an extremely difficult task, requiring in some cases the painstaking search for rare or out-of-print editions.

At "Black Book of 1821" you will read:

• the texts of the excommunication of the Revolution from the Patriarchate of Constantinople
• the reasons why the infamous lifting of the excommunication is an ecclesiastical myth
• how Grigorios E tried to appease the revolutionary moods of the Heptanesians and Peloponnesians at the end of the 18th century, ordering, at the same time, the burning of texts by Rigas Feraios
• the reasons why the excommunication of the Thieves by Patriarch Kallinikos E negatively affected the Revolution of '21.
• the encyclicals through which Gregory V attempted to control Greek book production, launching an attack on the Natural Sciences
• the excommunication imposed on Bouboulina, a few months before the uprising of the Greeks
• the texts of the patriarch Eugene II, which aimed to intimidate the Greeks, immediately after the outbreak of the Revolution
• the way in which the patriarch Agathangelos tried to provoke a civil war in the Greece of John Kapodistrias.