«Je vais donc narrer les grandes actions du prince Michel, dire comment il tailla les Turcs en pieces»: Michel le Brave, champion de l’Orthodoxie des chroniqueurs grecs
»I will tell the story of prince Michaels’ great deeds, I will tell how he cut the Turks into pieces«. Michael the Brave, Champion of Orthodoxie for the Greek Chroniclers

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the figure of the Wallachian voivod Michael the Brave and his glorification in the light of the Greek chronicles of Matthew of Myra, Stavrinos the Vestiar and Georges Palamades. The Romanian prince is an emblematic figure of the Balkan region under the Ottoman yoke in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His case is very evocative for the use of heroes embodying the struggle against Ottoman rule in modern Greek literature. However, the fight is led by a prince of Vlach origins, who’s participated in the unification of the Romanian principalities and their emancipation. This study is to determine the reasons for its appropriation as a symbol of liberation by Greek authors, despite tensions between Greeks and Vlachs.

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