Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

by Anthony Kaldellis

A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.

Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself "Byzantine." And while the identities of minorities in the eastern empire are clear--contemporaries speak of Slavs, Bulgarians,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674986512
• ISBN13: 9780674986510
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"