For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure,
marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians,
prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the
Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of
Rome and the rest of the classical world. In this book, renowned
historian Averil Cameron presents an original and personal view of
the challenges and questions facing historians of Byzantium
today.
The book explores five major themes, all subjects of
controversy. "Absence" asks why Byzantium is routinely passed over,
ignored, or relegated to a sphere of its own. "Empire" reinserts
Byzantium into modern debates about empire, and discusses the
nature of its system and its remarkable longevity. "Hellenism"
confronts the question of the "Greekness" of Byzantium, and of the
place of Byzantium in modern Greek consciousness. "The Realms of
Gold" asks what lessons can be drawn from Byzantine visual art, and
"The Very Model of Orthodoxy" challenges existing views of
Byzantine Christianity.
Throughout, the book addresses misconceptions about Byzantium,
suggests why it is so important to integrate the civilization into
wider histories, and lays out why Byzantium should be central to
ongoing debates about the relationships between West and East,
Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and the
ancient and medieval periods. The result is a forthright and
compelling call to reconsider the place of Byzantium in Western
history and imagination.
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