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  title info:
    title: Romanland
    sub title: ethnicity and empire in Byzantium
  name:
    name part: Kaldellis, Anthony
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 373 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Was there ever such a thing as the Byzantine Empire and who were those self-professed Romans we choose to call "Byzantine" today? At the heart of these two interlinked questions is Anthony Kaldellis's assertion that empires are, by definition, multiethnic. If there was indeed such a thing as the Byzantine Empire, which rules bounded majority and minority ethnic groups? The labels for the minority groups in Byzantium are clear, Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, Muslims. What was the ethnicity of the majority group? Historical evidence tells us unequivocally that no card-carrying Byzantine ever called himself "Byzantine." He would identify as Roman. This line of identification was so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering Ottomans saw themselves as inheritors of the Roman Empire. In Western scholarship, however, there has been a long tradition of denying Romanness to Byzantium. In the Middle Ages, people of the eastern empire were made "Greeks," and by the nineteenth century they were shorn of their distorted Greekness and turned "Byzantine." In Romanland, Kaldellis argues that it is time for historians to take the Romanness of Byzantines seriously so that we can better understand the relations between Romans and non-Romans, as well as the processes of assimilation that led to the absorption of foreign groups into the Roman genos.
  table of contents: Part I. Romans: A history of denial -- Roman ethnicity -- Romanland -- Part II. Others: Ethnic assimilation -- The Armenian fallacy -- Was Byzantium an empire in the tenth century? -- The apogee of empire in the eleventh century.
  note: Anthony Kaldellis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: mm-----
  subject:
    topic: Romans
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
  subject:
    topic: Romans
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Roman influences
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, Roman
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Cultural pluralism
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: History
  classification: DF553 .K35 2019
  classification: 305.8009495/0902
  identifier: 9780674986510
  identifier: 0674986512
  identifier: 2018038001
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180814
    record change date: 20190718162649.0
    record identifier: in00004053238