Conversations with experts in the history of Byzantium and surrounding fields, hosted by Anthony Kaldellis.
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Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
A conversation with Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin) on whether the scholarly rubric "Byzantium" does more harm than good. How did it come into being? What biases and ideologies, especially in the domain of gender, does it encode? What blind-spots and distortions does it create? We discuss whether "Byzantium" enables a Eurocentric western-oriented narrative about Greece, Rome, Europe, and the Renaissance that does not want to recognize classically educated, Greek-speaking, Orthodox Romans in the east.
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I think the case for seeing Byzantium as a different political and cultural entity from the Roman is pretty clear. The Romans were descended from one of the Latin tribes, and spoke Latin. The Byzantines didn’t even control Rome, and dropped Latin after Justinian. Basically, Rome unified the East through conquest, but her empire fragmented and the unified East East became independent in the same way the Seleucids became independent after Alexander died. But the Seleucids were really just Greeks
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
I discovered the podcast through Facebook through one of the pages about the Eastern Roman Empire. Congratulations for the work. I am interested since forever in history especially the history of the Greek middle ages. Through all the stuff I have read and watched I came to the conclusion that the Greeks were the Romans and wise versa but until now I thought that I was a nutcase. But it all makes perfect sense to me! Thank you
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
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Saturday Feb 13, 2021
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