Eastern international case study

Byzantine Studies has reached a tipping a growing number of historians have realized that the terms Byzantium and the Byzantines distort the reality and identity of the society that we study and encode a series of prejudices that were embedded in western perceptions The aim of these terms was to exclude the eastern empire from important discussions and historical developments It is time to end this exercise in orientalist fiction but what are the alternatives In this book Anthony Kaldellis surveys the pros and cons of a range of possible options and examines the implications of a field name change also for art history philology and the study of Eastern Orthodoxy The new name he proposes will carry the field into the next phase of its history renegotiate its relationships with its peers and respect the testimony of our sources The Case for East Roman Studies Past Imperfect

The Case for East Roman Studies (Past Imperfect) By Anthony Kaldellis

1802701826

9781802701821

English

112

Paperback

Ph.D University of Michigan Department of History 2001.