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De Gruyter - Pilot project. eBook available to selected libraries only
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Romans -- 1. A History of Denial -- 2. Roman Ethnicity -- 3. Romanland -- Part II. Others -- 4. Ethnic Assimilation -- 5. The Armenian Fallacy -- 6. Was Byzantium an Empire in the Tenth Century? -- 7. The Apogee of Empire in the Eleventh Century -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of eastern minorities were clear, that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a name made up by later generations. Anthony Kaldellis says it is time for the Romanness of these so-called Byzantines to be taken seriously