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The bibliography is extremely all encompassing, although the accuracy of the English language entries is rather hit and miss. As far as I know long out of print though it occasionaly turns up secondhand. Good news.

The Mexis history has now been translated into English sometimes a bit literal but generally fine by John Antonakis, as of - available via Amazon etc, etc. Mani and the Maniates. Ta Kastra tis Mainis. A sound and thorough scholarly Greek take on the castles of Mesa Mani with particular attention paid to Tigani and the archaeological remains on the Ano Poula ridge above Kipoula which Katsafados tends to identify with Grand Magne.

I can't pretend that with my ashamedly low level of Greek that I have read the entirety of the book but it is obvious that a great deal of research in libraries and an assiduous level of field-work on the spot in Mesa Mani has gone into it. I've since had the privilege of being taken round Tigani and two different areas of Ano Poula by Panayiotis and to be able to muse and converse, in robust though invariably amicable terms on his and my theories in situ. Panayiotis Katsafados revisits the debate in his recently launched website on the history and traditions of Mani.

Takis Katsafados has also produced a smaller publication Mani: Mezapos i omiriki Messi. Athens The title translates as Mezapos, Homer's Messa and the text, maps and photos trace the clues that point to that village being the site of ancient Messa. Kostas Komes. Plethysmos kai oikismoi tes Manes, 15osos aionas. Ioannina: Panepistemio Ioanninon, An exhaustive pages study of population and settlement in Mani from this volume is stuffed full of practically every census, survey and description of Mani over those centuries.

Based on the author's doctoral thesis it interprets the shifts in population and the rise and fall of various locations over the period. It's particulary useful for tracking the changes in names of places and villages in Mani and Vardounia. In Greek though non-Greek sources and names are kept in their original language and alphabet. Komes has also published a volume concentrating on the period of the Venetian occupation of Mani. Athens : Hellenika Grammata, Nadia C. University of Chicago Press.

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Seremetakis, a Greek who has lived a large part of her life in America, is an academic anthropologist. This book is the fruit of long research she did into these traditions in the deep Mani. The results are a fascinating account of the lives of women in the deep Mani over the last century and the dreams, frustrations and intuition which drives them and the society they inhabit. Well worth reading if you wish to understand even a small amount of the emotional background to the austere foreground of the deep Mani.

Seremetakis has published a number of similarly themed articles, the book is in print as of Mani: Geni kai Oikogeneia Alexakis' own trans. Mani: The Clans and the Family. I've only recently browsed this briefly in Cambridge University Library, though I've seen it for sale in Mani bookshops, and can't therefore comment on his findings except to say that his English language summary tends to confirm what we know of Maniat society.

The Exo Mani is exogamous and stratified; the Mesa Mani endogamous and, if, superficially, egalitarian extremely quarrelsome.

The Hopkins Review

John Anapliotes. The real Zorbas and Nikos Kazantzakis. Lewis A. Iannis Anapliotes went to Stoupa in the s and researched the true story of foreman, Giorgios Zorbas, and owner, Nikos Kazantzakis, of a small lignite mine in the cliffs between that village and Proastio in The location was switched to Crete - Kazantzakis' birthplace, when he came to write the classic novel 'Zorba the Greek' a quarter of a century later - but the landscape is that of the Exo Mani and Giorgios Zorbas Alexis in the novel was originally from Macedonia - and was therefore, strictly speaking, not born a Greek national at all This was not uncommon at that time - in fact Kazantzakis himself was born in Crete in - at the time an Ottoman territory, and, in truth, the Greek title of the novel, Vios kai politeia tou Alexi Zorba should be translated as "The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba".

Giorgios Zorbas was every bit as colourful in real life as the novel suggests whereas Kazantzakis was very much the cerebral 'Boss', more bothered with dreaming up philosophy than running a mine. In fact what exactly the writer was doing running a mine isn't at all clear or characteristic, until one learns that mining - being of national importance during the First World War - meant that Kazantzakis managed to avoid conscription into the Greek Army.

Anapliotes' book was originally published in Greek, in Athens in This English translation claims to have cut much of Anapliotes' verbiage but even so there are still far too many overblown purple passages where Anapliotes waxes lyrical on the landscape, the people, the myths and the soul of Greece and Mani without really saying very much. That said there are some nice insights into everyday life in early 20th century Stoupa. Paul Hetherington. London, A guide to the medieval sites of mainland Greece.

Hetherington gives a clear and concise history of medieval Greece and then an alphabetical gazetteer of sites. There are maps but they are not of much use and the dots - signifying the locations - are sometimes wildly wide of the actual mark. However he gives painstaking directions, accurate and discerning descriptions and although he tries to be objective his enthusiasm shines through.

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There is a long section devoted to the Mani - although he does not attempt to be comprehensive and selects sites judiciously. Out of print but often appears in secondhand bookshops. Hetherington has July published a companion volume to the above which covers the Byzantine and Medieval sites of the Greek islands, entitled The Greek Islands: Guide to the Byzantine and Medieval Buildings and their Art.

Highly recommended but obviously not, directly, pertinent to Mani. Peter Hartleb. Freie Universitat Berlin Dissertation Peter Hartleb is an anthropological geographer and this book is the fruit of his researches during the middle s. Although the book is perforce academic it is worth digging out of a research library The British Library has a copy and I think it's still available in Germany for the relatively contemporary portrait of the area and the host of minor details one can garner from its pages.

Especially useful is his in-depth study of Proastio. The study concentrates on the area from Kardamili down as far as Agios Nikon - in other words the heart of the Outer Mani. Hartleb's main thesis is that, in the period he was researching, whereas the coastal settlements such as Kardamili and Stoupa were thriving those on the plateau above were stagnant and some of the higher villages were in steep decline.

During a very pleasant morning strolling through Kardamili chatting with Peter he admitted that many of the villages he thought were doomed to extinction have been saved by the tourists and ex-patriot buyers of houses - though we agreed this could be a mixed blessing. And we've since looked down on the olive groves below Pirgos in Exo Mani and despaired at the number of villas and appartments springing up. Written in clear German there are short very short summaries in English and Greek.

Settlement in the Mani peninsular: A study in historical geography. Unpublished PhD. University of Southampton. Malcolm Wagstaff was Professor of Geography at Southampton University until and this, his doctoral thesis, is a fine study of settlement patterns in the Mesa Mani - most of the research was done in-situ in the s.

Like most theses there are moments, especially with exposition of complicated models for settlement development when it may baffle the non-academic reader - but generally this is a well written and extremely thorough overview of the area. It can, unfortunately, only be referred to at the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton. Wagstaff has written a large number of other studies on the historical geography of the Peloponnese which are available in scholarly journals.

The following are the most relevant to Mani and see also the Saitas edited volume for an article on the British agent in the Morea during the Napoleonic wars J. A small coastal town in southern Greece: its evolution and present condition. Town Planning Review pp Malcolm Wagstaff was based in Githion during his sixties doctoral research and this was his account of the historical development of this bustling little port on the eastern shore of the Mani peninsula.

Balkan Studies. Vol 6. Part 2. Settlements in the South Central Peloponnisos, c. An Historical Geography of the Balkans. Academic Press. A close look at the surveys and census records of the Mani by the agents of Charles Duc de Nevers and the Venetians in the 17th century. In part based on the above thesis. War and Settlement Desertion in the Morea - Colonel Leake in Lakonia. Sanders ed. Philolakon: Lakonian Studies in honour of Hector Catling.