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Recent Contributions to Retrospective Greek Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017
Abstract
In his recent study of publishing in eighteenth-century Russia, Gary Marker has called attention to the importance of publication and distribution of the printed word as one measure of the reception of Western thought into Eastern Europe. For historians of the Balkans, no less than for Russian specialists, a crucial aid in this type of study has been the publication of systematic retrospective national bibliographies. Nowhere in the Balkans has this concern for retrospective bibliographical control been so closely linked with historical scholarship as in Greece. Even before the monumental publication of Émile L. J. Legrand's multivolume Bibliographic hellénique, modern Greek historical and philological study was closely linked to bibliographical coverage of Greek imprints during the Turcocratia. Since World War II, this concern for retrospective national bibliography has been closely identified with the study of the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment and Greek literature from the fall of Byzantium to the modern period.
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25. Bulletin analytique de bibliographie hellénique, vols. 6-23 (1945-62) (Athens, 1947-63). The Bulletin offers comprehensive coverage, including listings of separate articles in serials, for 1945-62 (vols. 6-23). Volumes 1-5 (covering 1940-44) and volumes 24-27 (covering 1963-66) have never been published. The Bulletin continues annual coverage with the 1967 publishing year (see note 26 below).
26. Ibid., vols. 28-33 (1967-72) (Athens, 1967-78). In addition to the continuing, albeit delayed, publication of the Bulletin analytique, national bibliographical coverage for Greece has recently been advanced by the publication of Hellēnikē vivliographia, compiled by the Bibliographical Society of Greece. Hellēnikē vivliographia aspires to being'an authoritative national bibliography based upon a new national depository law. Call numbers from the National Library of Greece are included with each entry. To date, Hellēnikē vivliographia has been issued for 1972, 1973, 1976, and 1977 (Athens, 1975-79). On the basis of the single 1972 year of overlapping coverage by the Bulletin analytique and the Hellēnikē vivliographia, it is now possible to determine how the two titles complement each other. Hellenike vivliographia offers a much greater number of entries and the National Library call number, whereas the Bulletin analytique continues to offer annotations for monographic entries and listings of articles within anthologies and serial publications. There are also some publications of minor presses identified in the Bulletin analytique, but missed in the Hellēnikē vivliographia—perhaps an indication of the limitations of the depository law and the problems of handling underground publications during the period of the Greek junta.