Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? - Toward a Critical Historiography

"A volume of essays by scholars of Byzantine art, history, and literature addressing the entanglements between the academic discipline of Byzantine studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism"--

About the author

Benjamin Anderson is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Classics at Cornell University. He is the author of Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art and coeditor of Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison, and The Byzantine Neighbourhood: Urban Space and Political Action.Mirela Ivanova is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople.

Summary

A volume of essays by scholars of Byzantine art, history, and literature addressing the entanglements between the academic discipline of Byzantine studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Benjamin Anderson (Editor), Benjamin (Cornell University) Anderson (Editor), Anderson Benjamin (Editor), Mirela Ivanova (Editor), Mirela (University of Sheffield) Ivanova (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2023
• EAN: 9780271095264
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09526-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: ICMA Books | Viewpoints
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine style