Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108499903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

Diana Mishkova

Opis

Explores the treatment of Byzantium by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains since the Enlightenment.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. On the Road to the Grand Narratives: 1. Precursors: The historiography of the enlightenment; 2. The century of history: Byzantium in the budding national-historical canons; 3. In search of the 'scientific method'; 4. Between Byzantine studies and metahistory; 5. Byzantium in Ottoman and early Republican Turkish historiography; Part II. Metamorphoses of Byzantium after World War II: 6. From Helleno-Christian civilisation to Roman nation; 7. Towards 'Slavo-Byzantina' and 'pax Symeonica': Bulgarian scripts; 8. How Byzantine is Serbia?; 9. Post-Byzantine empire or Romanian national state?; 10. In the fold of the 'Turkish-Islamic Synthesis'; Epilogue and conclusion.