Byzantium after the Nation

The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s, Byzantium after Byzantium, that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a “war of interpretation” as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon.Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth-, and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial model: whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period (and, by extension, their own antiquity); and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:750 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:410
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789633863077

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Dimitris Stamatopoulos is Associate Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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"It is the signal achievement of Dimitris Stamatopoulos’s Byzantium after the Nation to have excavated a nineteenth-century counter-tradition of imperial, ecumenist ‘historiographical divergences’ from ‘the national historiographical canon’. A revised translation of a study first published in Greek some fifteen years ago, Stamatopoulos’s work remains fresh and surprising. His study is exemplary in its careful reconstruction of the worldviews of late imperial intellectuals whose contributions have been submerged by the creation of national schools. It is also exemplary in its refusal to draw an absolute distinction between imperialism and nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A major step forward in the project of a critical historiography of Byzantine studies."https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceae159/7742107

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CHAPTER I. Introduction1. The Discipline of History: Canons and Divergences2. The Problem of Continuity: Theories of Origin and Political Imperatives3. In the Shadow of the Empire4. Describing the Network: The Ottoman Framework and its CollapseCHAPTER II. The Iconoclast Byzantium of Greek Nationalism1. Manuel Gedeon’s Perception of History2. A Periodization3. Zambelios’s Transcendant Byzantium: From Aristotle to Hegel4. Paparrigopoulos’s Phanariot Byzantium and French Imperial Nationalism5. France and Russia in Constantinople: Toward an Interpretation of the Great Idea6. Helleno-Ottomanism: The Response of Constantinople7. Heretical Byzantium in The History of the Greek Nation8. Iconoclasm as a Conspiracy of the Monarchy9. Iconoclasm as Reformation10. Gedeon’s Medieval HellemismHellenism: The Zambelios–Paparrigopoulos Construct Scheme and the Ottoman Divergence11. Footnotes: The Denunciation of Helleno-Orthodoxy12. Byzantium as a Metaphor: Greeks and Slavs13. The Iconoclast Byzantium and the Break from Greek Historiography14. Byzantium as a Metonymy: The Church and the Ottoman State15. Ecumenism as a Romantic Reconstruction16. Histories of the Ottoman EmpireCHAPTER III. The “Medieval Antiquity” of the Bulgarian Historiography1. The Canon of Bulgarian Historiography: the Origin Model2. Bulgarians: Vandals, Illyrians, or Macedonians?3. Drinov’s History: The Slavicisation of the Bulgarians4. Krâstevič’s Thesis: The Bulgarians are Huns (The Positive Use of Byzantine Chronography)5. Drinov’s Thesis: The Bulgarians are Slavs (The Negative Use of Byzantine Chronography)6. Krâstevič’s Response: The Huns are Slavs7. The Romantic Reconstruction of Imperial Discourse: Some Conclusions8. Povestnost Instead of Historija: Georgi Rakovski’s Hyper-Hermeneutic Model9. The Balkans as East: Charilaos Dimopoulos’ History of the BulgariansCHAPTER IV. Byzantinisms and the Third Rome: Russian Imperial Nationalism1. Konstantin Leont’ev: On the Edge of Two Epistemological Paradigmes2. Leont’ev’s Byzantism3. The Middle Ages as a Canonical Model4. Byzantism as Imperial Discourse: The Parity of Russians and Ottomans5. Leont’ev’s Slavism: Greeks/Bulgarians, Germans/Czechs6. The Three Romes7. A Romantic Reconstruction of History: the Persians’ Vindication8. Leont’ev and Marko Balabanov: Byzantism as a Bridge9. The Meaning of Progress and the Possibility of an Ottoman Nation10. Byzantium and the “Groundless Accusation of Ethno-Phyletism”11. Balabanov and Renan: “Balkans Will Turn into a Volcano”12. Byzantium and Great Idea: The Serbian Perspective13. Ivan I. Sokolov’s Byzantinism14. Pan-Orthodox Ecumenism and Byzantinisms: Gedeon’s Two MomentsCHAPTER V. The “Roman Byzantium” of the Albanian Historiography1. Namık Kemal and Renan2. The Rupture of Pan-Islamic Ecumenism: Şemseddin vs. Sami Frashëri3. Between Ancient Greeks and Modern Europeans: Islamic Civilization as a Mediator4. The “De-Arabification” of Islam5. The Management of Time and Space in Islam6. From the Islamic Ummah to the Albanian Nation: The Return of the Pelasgians7. The Problem of Discontinuity in Albanian History8. Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos and the Pelasgians9. The De-Islamification of Albanian History10. Pan-Islamic Ecumenism and Roman Byzantium: The Immanence of EmpireCHAPTER VI. Byzantium as ....