ROMANLAND : ETHNICITY AND EMPIRE IN BYZANTIUM

Εκδότης: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Συγγραφέας: ANTHONY KALDELLIS
Isbn: 9780674986510
Διαστάσεις: 235Χ156Χ0
Αριθμός σελίδων: 392
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 31/3/2019
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Περιγραφη

"A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself “Byzantine.” And while the identities of minorities in the eastern empire are clear—contemporaries speak of Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, and Muslims—that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a name made up by later generations. Historical evidence tells us unequivocally that Byzantium’s ethnic majority, no less than the ruler of Constantinople, would have identified as Roman. It was an identity so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering Ottomans would eventually adopt it. But Western scholarship has a long tradition of denying the Romanness of Byzantium. In Romanland, Anthony Kaldellis investigates why and argues that it is time for the Romanness of these so-called Byzanti