Romanland: Ethnicity And Empire In Byzantium Anthony Kaldellis Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays Literary Reference

A Leading Historian Argues That In The Empire We Know As Byzantium Greek-Speaking Population Was Actually Roman And Scholars Have Deliberately Mislabeled Their Ethnicity For Past Two Centuries Political Reasons There Ever Such Thing Byzantium? Certainly No Emperor Called Himself “Byzantine ” While Identities Of Minorities Eastern Are Clear—Contemporaries Speak Slavs Bulgarians Armenians Jews Muslims—That Ruling Majority Remains Obscured Behind Name Made Up By Later Generations Historical Evidence Tells Us Unequivocally Byzantium’s Ethnic Less Than Ruler Constantinople Would Identified It An Identity So Strong Even Conquering Ottomans Eventually Adopt But Western Scholarship Has Long Tradition Denying Romanness Romanland Anthony Kaldellis Investigates Why Is Time These So-Called Byzantines To Be Taken Seriously Middle Ages He Explains People Were Labeled “Greeks Nineteenth Century They Shorn Distorted Greekness Became Only When Understand Will Fully Appreciate Nature Also Better Processes Assimilation Led Absorption Foreign Minority Groups Into Dominant Group Romans Who Presided Over Vast Multiethnic East Σελίδες: 392 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0401 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm