Romanland : ethnicity and empire in Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis.

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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 Byz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaldellis, Anthony (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Romans > Byzantine Empire.
Romans > Ethnic identity.
Byzantine Empire > Civilization > Roman influences.
National characteristics, Roman.
Byzantine Empire > Ethnic relations.
Cultural pluralism > Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire > History.
Civilization > Roman influences.
Cultural pluralism.
Ethnic relations.
Romans.
Byzantine Empire.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 373 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Romans: A history of denial
  • Roman ethnicity
  • Romanland
  • Part II. Others: Ethnic assimilation
  • The Armenian fallacy
  • Was Byzantium an empire in the tenth century?
  • The apogee of empire in the eleventh century.