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Byzantium after the Nation: The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

Byzantium after the Nation: The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

Dimitris Stamatopoulos
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Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s,  Byzantium after Byzantium,  that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a "war of interpretation" as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon. Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth-, and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period ; and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.
Language
English
Pages
410
Format
Hardcover
Release
November 14, 2022
ISBN 13
9789633863077

Byzantium after the Nation: The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

Dimitris Stamatopoulos
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s,  Byzantium after Byzantium,  that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a "war of interpretation" as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon. Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth-, and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period ; and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.
Language
English
Pages
410
Format
Hardcover
Release
November 14, 2022
ISBN 13
9789633863077

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