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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kaldellis, Anthony (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Romanland [Texte imprimé] : ethnicity and empire in Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-373 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p.325-361. Notes bibliogr. Index
"Was there ever such a thing as the Byzantine Empire and who were those self-professed
Romans we choose to call "Byzantine" today? At the heart of these two interlinked
questions is Anthony Kaldellis's assertion that empires are, by definition, multiethnic.
If there was indeed such a thing as the Byzantine Empire, which rules bounded majority
and minority ethnic groups? The labels for the minority groups in Byzantium are clear
- Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, Muslims. What was the ethnicity of the majority
group? Historical evidence tells us unequivocally that no card-carrying Byzantine
ever called himself "Byzantine." He would identify as Roman. This line of identification
was so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering Ottomans saw themselves
as inheritors of the Roman Empire. In Western scholarship, however, there has been
a long tradition of denying Romanness to Byzantium. In the Middle Ages, people of
the eastern empire were made "Greeks," and by the nineteenth century they were shorn
of their distorted Greekness and turned "Byzantine." In Romanland, Kaldellis argues
that it is time for historians to take the Romanness of Byzantines seriously so that
we can better understand the relations between Romans and non-Romans, as well as the
processes of assimilation that led to the absorption of foreign groups into the Roman
genos"--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Ethnicity and empire in Byzantium
Sujet(s) : Relations interethniques -- Empire byzantin
Diversité culturelle -- Empire byzantin
Indice(s) Dewey :
949.502 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Grèce - 0717-1081
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674986510. - ISBN 0674986512 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45768981v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45768981
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Table des matières : Romans. A history of denial ; Roman ethnicity ; Romanland ; Others. Ethnic assimilation
; The Armenian fallacy ; Was Byzantium an empire in the tenth century? ; The apogee
of empire in the eleventh century.