Real Romans
Michael Kulikowski, 1 August 2024
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
by Anthony Kaldellis.
Oxford, 1133 pp., £34.99, February,978 0 19 754932 2 Show More
by Anthony Kaldellis.
Oxford, 1133 pp., £34.99, February,
“... impression that Byzantium matters as and when it pertains to a Latin, Western European history. Anthony Kaldellis will have none of this. He reprehends the terms ‘Byzantine’ and ‘Byzantium’ as the fraudulent legacy of 19th-century scholars determined to claim the heritage of Roman antiquity for (North-) Western Europe, dispossessing its ... ”