It is an undeniable fact that we do not yet know well the history of modern Hellenism, especially its beginnings and the period of Turkish rule, despite the increasing number of researchers in recent years, as well as systematic works. And this is because the material is vast and diverse. It takes great patience, effort, and a lot of time to study the published Greek sources, Byzantine or post-Byzantine, as well as the rich foreign-language ones, and to make use of the information that still remains hidden within them. It is also necessary to collect and make known the abundant unpublished historical material and to publish the most important of it, so that specialized studies and monographs can be written on various issues or certain time periods, and thus achieve the most accurate and comprehensive historical composition possible. [...]

(from the introduction of the book)