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1 online resource (xv, 373 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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 Byzantine Empire, which rules bounded majority and minority ethnic groups? The labels for the minority groups in Byzantium are clear - Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, Muslims. What was the ethnicity of the majority group? Historical evidence tells us unequivocally that no card-carrying Byzantine ever called himself "Byzantine." He would identify as Roman. This line of identification was so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering Ottomans saw themselves as inheritors of the Roman Empire. In Western scholarship, however, there has been a long tradition of denying Romanness to Byzantium. In the Middle Ages, people of the eastern empire were made "Greeks," and by the nineteenth century they were shorn of their distorted Greekness and turned "Byzantine." In Romanland, Kaldellis argues that it is time for historians to take the Romanness of Byzantines seriously so that we can better understand the relations between Romans and non-Romans, as well as the processes of assimilation that led to the absorption of foreign groups into the Roman genos.-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A history of denial -- Roman ethnicity -- Romanland -- Ethnic assimilation -- The Armenian fallacy -- Was Byzantium an empire in the tenth century? -- The apogee of empire in the eleventh century. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Romans -- Byzantine Empire.
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Romans. |
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Byzantine Empire. |
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Romans -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- Roman influences.
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Civilization. |
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National characteristics, Roman.
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National characteristics, Roman. |
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Byzantine Empire -- Ethnic relations.
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Cultural pluralism -- Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantine Empire -- History.
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Ethnic relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Cultural pluralism. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. |
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Civilization -- Roman influences. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Ethnicity and empire in Byzantium |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaldellis, Anthony. Romanland. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674986510 (DLC) 2018038001 (OCoLC)1032717857 |
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9780674239685 (electronic book) |
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0674239687 (electronic book) |
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9780674239708 (mobi) |
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0674239709 (mobi) |
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9780674239692 (epub) |
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0674239695 (epub) |
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9780674986510 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0674986512 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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