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I have not listed works in Greek. Those who require art extensive bibliography,
which includes Greet works, wiil find one in Raymond Matton’s book. For
serious students of Crete, the periodical Cretica Chronka (Heraklion) is essential;
it contains articles on every aspect of Cretan history and culture in Greek,
English, French and Italian.
General
BOWMAN, JOHN, Crete, Seeker and Warburg, London, 1962: a practical
guide-book, but short on background material, expensive, and not always
accurate.
ELLIADI, M. N., Crete Past and Present, Heath, Cranton, London, 1933.
MATTON, RAYMOND, LaCrite auCours des SUcles, Athens, 1957: an excellent
and reliable potted survey of Cretan history and culture from Minoan times to
the present day.
RAULIN, VICTOR, Descrip tion Physique de I’ He de Crete, Paris, 1869.
History
GERLAND, E., Histoire de la Noblesse Critoise au Moyen-Age, in Revue de l’ Orient
Latin, 1907.
GEANAKOPLOS, DENO JOHN Greek Scholars in Venice, Harvard, 1062: an
account of the dissemination of Greek learning from Byzantium, via Crete, to
western Europe.
MILLER, WILLIAM, Essays in the Latin Orient, Cambridge, 1921: contains
an essay on the Venetian period.
----- The 0ttoman Empire and its Successors, Cambridge, 1927: contains an
incidental account of Cretan history from the Greek war of independence until
the union of Crete with Greece.
PSYCHOUNDAKIS, GEORGE, The Cretan Runner, John Murray, London,
1955: the only account of the resistance movement in Crete written from the
Cretan point of view.
ALLBAUGHJLELAND, Crete: a Case Study of an Underdeveloped Area, Princeton,
1953: the report on a study carried out in 1948 under the auspices of the
Rockefeller Foundation.
Travel
BELON, PIERRE, Les Observations de Plvsieurs Singularitez el Choses Memorables
Trouvees en Grece, Paris, 1554.
DAPPER,D.O., Description Exacte des lies de VArchipel, Amsterdam, 1703.
FIELDING, XAN, The Stronghold, Seeker and “Warburg, London, 1953.
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