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The great powers and Orthodox Christendom : the crisis over the Eastern Church in the era of the Crimean War / Jack Fairey.

by Fairey, Jack, 1970- author.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Eastern question.

Europe -- Politics and government -- 1848-1871.

9781137508454 (hardback) :

1137508450 (hardback)

Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.

xv, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

1. Reason in Exile: The War for orthodox christendom -- 2. A Patriarch's Progress: The Great Church under Grigrios VI -- 3. Ponsonby vs the Patriarch: Orthodoxy and European Diplomacy -- 4. 'The Great Game of Improvement': Resid Pasa and Reform -- 5. A Cossack Takes the Cross: Prince Menshikov's Crusade -- 6. Ambassadors of Peace: Recasting Ottoman Christendom -- 7. 'A Complete Revolution': The Great Church & the Great Powers.

"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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