Is Byzantine studies a colonialist discipline? : toward a critical historiography /

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Imprint:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Description:xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:ICMA books. Viewpoints
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13141897
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Other authors / contributors:Anderson, Benjamin, editor.
Ivanova, Mirela (Historian), editor.
ISBN:9780271095264
0271095261
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface: The Historical Conjuncture
  • Introduction: For a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies
  • Part I. How is Byzantine Studies (Re)Produced?
  • 1. Hieronymus Wolf's Silver Tongue: Early Byzantine Scholarship at the Intersection of Slavery, Colonialism, and the Crusades
  • 2. Byzantine Archaeology: Teaching the Tenth and the Twentieth Centuries
  • 3. Byzantium in Exile
  • Part 2. How is Byzantium (Re)produced?
  • 4. Methodological Imperialism
  • 5. The Price of Admission
  • 6. Byzantine Studies: A Field Ripe for Disruption
  • 7. Subaltern Byzantinism
  • Part 3. How are Byzantine Texts (Re)produced?
  • 8. Byzantine and Western Narratives: A Dialogue of Empires
  • 9. The Ethnic Process
  • 10. Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine Studies
  • Part 4. How is Byzantine Art (Re)produced?
  • 11. The South Kensington Museum, Byzantine Egyptian Textiles, and Art-Historical Imperialism
  • 12. From Ethnographic Illustration to Aphrodisian Magistrate: Changing Perceptions of an Early Byzantine Portrait
  • 13. Expanding and Decentering Byzantium: The Acquisition of an Ethiopian Double-Sided Gospel Leaf
  • 14. Equity, Accessibility, and New Narratives for Byzantine Art in the Museum
  • A Collective Bibliography Toward a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies
  • List of Contributors
  • Index