A comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains - Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey - from the Enlightenment to the present day. Reveals its importance in both identity building and identity politics.
A comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains - Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey - from the Enlightenment to the present day. Reveals its importance in both identity building and identity politics.
Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) and Domestication of Freedom. Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and editor of many collective volumes, including European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History (2017), Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vols 2 and 4 (2014, 2017) and We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe (2009).
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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.
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.
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