The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires
Journal: The English Historical Review
Year: 2024

Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest.Its peculiarities, however, are rarely discussed by its practitioners, nor have they been much noted by intellectual historians.The appearance in recent years of multiple book-length studies of the discipline and its histories is therefore welcome.The quality of the three works here reviewed is such that each simultaneously complements and complicates the image presented by the other