Description
This is a comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains - Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey - from the Enlightenment to the present day. Synthesising a sprawling mass of material largely unknown to academic audiences, it highlights the important place Byzantium's representations occupy in the identity building and historical consciousness in that part of Europe. The diverse interpretations of the Byzantine phenomenon across and within these historiographic traditions are scrutinised against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, in constant dialogue and competition with each other and in communication with extra-regional, western and Russian, academic currents. The book will be of value to medieval historians, Byzantinists and historians of historiography as well as students of and specialists in modern politics, cultural and intellectual history.
Explores the treatment of Byzantium by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains since the Enlightenment.
About the Author
Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) and Domestication of Freedom. Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and editor of many collective volumes, including European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History (2017), Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vols 2 and 4 (2014, 2017) and We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe (2009).
Reviews
'The book can successfully serve Byzantinists and Balkanists as a bibliographic and problem guide and a starting point for further research. Diana Mishkova gives a very detailed and reliable overview of the Balkan historiography and the last two centuries in the field of issues that interest her.' Anna Kotlowska, Roczniki Historyczne
Book Information
ISBN 9781108718639
Author Diana Mishkova
Format Paperback
Page Count 367
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 493g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm
Explores the treatment of Byzantium by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains since the Enlightenment.
About the Author
Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) and Domestication of Freedom. Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and editor of many collective volumes, including European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History (2017), Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vols 2 and 4 (2014, 2017) and We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe (2009).
Reviews
'The book can successfully serve Byzantinists and Balkanists as a bibliographic and problem guide and a starting point for further research. Diana Mishkova gives a very detailed and reliable overview of the Balkan historiography and the last two centuries in the field of issues that interest her.' Anna Kotlowska, Roczniki Historyczne
Book Information
ISBN 9781108718639
Author Diana Mishkova
Format Paperback
Page Count 367
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 493g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm
