{"product_id":"romanland-anthony-kaldellis-9780674986510","title":"Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWas 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, Armenians, Jews, and Muslims--that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a name made up by later generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistorical evidence tells us unequivocally that Byzantium's ethnic majority, no less than the ruler of Constantinople, would have identified as Roman. It was an identity so strong in the eastern empire that even the conquering Ottomans would eventually adopt it. But Western scholarship has a long tradition of denying the Romanness of Byzantium. In \u003ci\u003eRomanland\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Kaldellis investigates why and argues that it is time for the Romanness of these so-called Byzantines to be taken seriously. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Middle Ages, he explains, people of the eastern empire were labeled \"Greeks,\" and by the nineteenth century they were shorn of their distorted Greekness and became \"Byzantine.\" Only when we understand that the Greek-speaking population of Byzantium was actually Roman will we fully appreciate the nature of Roman ethnic identity. We will also better understand the processes of assimilation that led to the absorption of foreign and minority groups into the dominant ethnic group, the Romans who presided over the vast multiethnic empire of the east.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Kaldellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674986512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674986510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Anthony Kaldellis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46233268846847,"sku":"9780674986510","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24e52036-5aee-4c66-81c1-13dd5e093192.jpg?v=1728992544","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/romanland-anthony-kaldellis-9780674986510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}