🔴 The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis.

“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 rightful heirs and smearing them, perversely, with tropes of Oriental despotism invented by the Greeks of the classical age. Save in the book’s subtitle, a commercial concession, Kaldellis restricts the offending word to historiographical contexts.”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/michael-kulikowski/real-romans

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