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Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography Edited by Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanova

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical historiography. Bringing togethe ....

Jake Ransohoff , Stephanier Caruso , Nicholas Sm Matheou , Elizabeth Dosp , Maria Mavroudi , Bahattin Bayram , Alexandra Vukovich , Anthony Kaldellis , Hughg Jeffery , Arietta Papaconstantinou , Nathanael Aschenbrenner , Arielle Winnik , Zeynep Olgun , Averil Cameron , Matthew Kinloch , Byzantine Studies , Andrea Myers Achi , 978 0 271 09526 4 , Byzantine Studies , Post Colonial Studies , South East European Studies , Medieval Studies , Re Modern Race ,