Imagining Byzantium

Perceptions, Patterns, Problems

edited by Alena Alshanskaya, Andreas Gietzen and Christina Hadjiafxenti

Book cover: Imagining Byzantium

Extent: 132 pages

Publisher: Schnell & Steiner

Subjects: Art & Art History, Byzantine Studies

Series: Romisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum / Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident

Series volume number: 11

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2019)

ISBN: 9783795434359

8.27 x 11.77 inches

Price: $41.00

In stock

With the rise of nationalism in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century, the reception of Byzantium gained new facets and dimensions. In this volume some light will be shed on the different ways in which Byzantium was used in constructing new national narratives, and how its legacy endured in ecclesiastical historiography.


Byzantium the other. Byzantium the pompous. Byzantium the eternal. The mere existence of this empire spurred the minds of people of all ranks during its existence and well after its ultimate demise in 1453. Neglecting its great political and cultural influence, Enlighteners divested Byzantium of its historic reality and created a model to be applied in completely different constructs.

  • Edited by Alena Alshanskaya
  • Edited by Andreas Gietzen
  • Edited by Christina Hadjiafxenti