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Romanland - Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
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Romanland - Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
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A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium,
the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have
deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries
for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium?
Certainly no emperor ever called himself "Byzantine." And while the
identities of minorities in the eastern empire are
clear-contemporaries speak of Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews,
and Muslims-that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a
name made up by later generations. Historical evidence tells us
unequivocally that Byzantium's ethnic majority, no less than the
ruler of Constantinople, would have identified as Roman. It was an
identity so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering
Ottomans would eventually adopt it. But Western scholarship has a
long tradition of denying the Romanness of Byzantium. In Romanland,
Anthony Kaldellis investigates why and argues that it is time for
the Romanness of these so-called Byzantines to be taken seriously.
In the Middle Ages, he explains, people of the eastern empire were
labeled "Greeks," and by the nineteenth century they were shorn of
their distorted Greekness and became "Byzantine." Only when we
understand that the Greek-speaking population of Byzantium was
actually Roman will we fully appreciate the nature of Roman ethnic
identity. We will also better understand the processes of
assimilation that led to the absorption of foreign and minority
groups into the dominant ethnic group, the Romans who presided over
the vast multiethnic empire of the east.
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