Anthony Kaldellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Kaldellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaldellis |
| SIGNATURE | KALDELLIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Byzantine Borders were State Artefacts, not ‘Fluid Zones of Interaction’
In recent decades, a number of remarkable claims have been advanced about the Roman and early Byzantine imperial borders: namely, that the empire had no clear or fixed borders– or even no concept of a border to begin with; that there was no expectation that the borders could or should be defended and no ability to do so; that there was no concept of territorial integrity; that there was no imperial strategy for the defense of the empire; and that…
Human Paleogenetics and Late Antique Migration
The Global Middle Ages between Empire and Neoliberalism
Eingegangene Bücher
The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630
This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361–363) and Herakleios (610–641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence …
Roman Quasity: A Matrix of Byzantine Thought and History
Scholars of ancient Rome have discussed, but not yet named, a legal move that operated in many domains of ancient Roman thought and practice, enabling the Romans to treat one thing as if (quasi) it were another. That maneuver is here baptized quasity and studied as a matrix of important aspects of Byzantine (east Roman) history and social practice. Specifically, it enabled the east Romans to treat Constantinople as if it were Rome; to venerate ic…
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
The Chronology of the Reign of Alexios III Komnenos for the years 1198-1202 AD and its Implications
Η χρονολογία των γεγονότων της βασιλείας του Αλεξίου Γ ́ για τα έτη 1198 -1202 και οι επιπτώσεις της Η χρονολογία των γεγονότων της βασιλείας του Αλεξίου Γ ́ απασχόλησε την έρευνα για τελευταία φορά προ πεντηκονταετίας, χωρίς όμως να αξιοποιηθούν όλα τα διαθέσιμα στοιχεία. Στην μελέτη επανεξετάζεται το θέμα και ανασκευάζεται η εικόνα του συγκεκριμένου αυτοκράτορα, που παρουσιάζεται από τον Νικήτα Χωνιάτη ως οκνηρός, αδιάφορος και συβαρίτης
Response to “Authority and Power in Russia
An argument can perhaps be made that all monarchies, no matter how absolute or authoritarian, cannot function without the consent of their subjects, whether tacit or active; proclaim that they act for the welfare (however defined) of their subjects; agree to abide by rules or laws that reflect social norms (whether they actually do abide by them or not); and are vulnerable to popular dissatisfaction. I was aware of the potential for such a genera…
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium
Constantinople’s Belated Hegemony
By the end of the fourth century, Constantinople, New Rome, had been endowed with a constellation of monuments that collectively signified the City’s centrality in imperial space, in conceptions of time, and the very ordering of the physical world. The Milion, a tetrapylon (or quadrifrons ) built by Constantine at the end of the Mese boulevard, stood as a symbolic “zero point” in the geography of empire, analogous to Elder Rome’s Miliarium Aureum…
Neo-Phoenician Identities in the Roman Empire
By the later empire, Phoenician cultural traits that might have sustained a separate ethnic identity had either disappeared (e.g., language) or been amalgamated into the Greco-Roman mainstream (e.g., the ancient cults). A “Phoenician” was now a person or city from one of the provinces which the Romans labeled Phoenice. Discussion of Phoenician culture by scholars from those provinces (such as Maximos and Porphyry of Tyre) and local constructions …
Leo I, ethnic politics and the beginning of Justin I’s career
The humble origins of Justin I (ca. 450-527) are known primarily from the Secret History of Prokopios, who was writing almost a century later and not interested in elaborating on how and why Justin walked from his village to join the imperial guard in Constantinople. We can, however, contextualize that move within the ethnic politics of the capital in the 460s and 470s, as the emperor Leo I tried to play Gothic and Isaurian factions against each …
Political freedom in Byzantium: The rhetoric of liberty and the periodization of Roman history
This paper proposes an intellectual history of the idea that the later Roman empire and, subsequently, the whole of Byzantium were less ‘free’ in comparison to the Roman Republic. Anxiety over diminished freedom recurred throughout Roman history, but only a few specific expressions of it were enshrined in modern thought as the basis on which to divide history into periods. The theorists of the Enlightenment, moreover, invented an unfree Byzantium…
The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in di…
Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A. D. to the First Crusade
Streams of gold, rivers of blood: The rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests, first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty y…
Epilogue 1
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book discusses the texture and personality of Procopius' Greek text, which is so often allusive – also, with the ontology of its narrative forms, and how it operates on the mind of its readers. It considers Procopius' discussion of the North African confessors who could speak even after their tongues had been cut out by the Vandals. The book also considers …
How Perilous Was It to Write Political History in Late Antiquity
Scholars often assume that historians in late antiquity ended their narratives with the previous regime because it was too dangerous for them to write candidly about the current imperial reign. While this was generally true, there are some notable exceptions to the pattern which, when studied together, show that this rule was not iron-clad and cannot safely be relied on to date the composition of texts and the scope of their coverage (in the case…
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome
Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of, and sometimes by, Greek-speaking citizens who considered themselves fully Roman.
Byzantine Republic
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios’ Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Historians reconstruct the Byzantine conquest of Crete in 960-961 based largely on the History of Leo the Deacon and two variants of the continuation of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. However, the account in the continuation is modelled closely, in narrative structure, imagery, vocabulary and ideology, on Prokopios’ account of the conquest of North Africa by Belisarios in 533-534. This challenges our knowledge of the campaign but sheds in…
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios' Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Historians reconstruct the Byzantine conquest of Crete in 960‒961 based largely on the History of Leo the Deacon and two variants of the continuation of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. However, the account in the continuation is modelled closely, in narrative structure, imagery, vocabulary and ideology, on Prokopios' account of the conquest of North Africa by Belisarios in 533‒534. This challenges our knowledge of the campaign but sheds in…
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
How Perilous Was It to Write Political History in Late Antiquity
Scholars often assume that historians in late antiquity ended their narratives with the previous regime because it was too dangerous for them to write candidly about the current imperial reign. While this was generally true, there are some notable exceptions to the pattern which, when studied together, show that this rule was not iron-clad and cannot safely be relied on to date the composition of texts and the scope of their coverage (in the case…
The original source for Tzimiskes’ Balkan campaign (971 AD) and the emperor’s classicizing propaganda
For their account of Ioannes Tzimiskes’ Balkan campaign of 971 AD against the Rus, Leon the Deacon and Ioannes Skylitzes independently used a common source that was written soon after the emperor’s triumph in Constantinople. This source classicized the emperor and his actions, drawing upon figures from the Roman Republic and including speeches and geographical digressions. This source accounts for the bulk of what we know of Tzimiskes’ reign
Julian, the Hierophant of Eleusis, and the Abolition of Constantius’ Tyranny
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Political freedom in Byzantium: The rhetoric of liberty and the periodization of Roman history
This paper proposes an intellectual history of the idea that the later Roman empire and, subsequently, the whole of Byzantium were less ‘free’ in comparison to the Roman Republic. Anxiety over diminished freedom recurred throughout Roman history, but only a few specific expressions of it were enshrined in modern thought as the basis on which to divide history into periods. The theorists of the Enlightenment, moreover, invented an unfree Byzantium…
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios' Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Historians reconstruct the Byzantine conquest of Crete in 960‒961 based largely on the History of Leo the Deacon and two variants of the continuation of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. However, the account in the continuation is modelled closely, in narrative structure, imagery, vocabulary and ideology, on Prokopios' account of the conquest of North Africa by Belisarios in 533‒534. This challenges our knowledge of the campaign but sheds in…
The Making of Hagia Sophia and the Last Pagans of New Rome
A figure overlooked in scholarship on Hagia Sophia is Phokas, the praetorian prefect of 532 under whom construction of the church began. He was a pagan who eventually took his own life in one of Justinian's purges. His initial supervision of the construction of Hagia Sophia is attested by Ioannes Lydos, himself a pagan intellectual, who praised Phokas in superlative terms, despite Phokas' infamous death. Consideration of all the evidence for an a…
Things are not What They Are: Agathias Mythistoricus and the Last Laugh of Classical Culture
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The Religion of Ioannes Lydos
THE RECENT GROWTH OF INTEREST IN LATE ANTIQUITY and its emergence as a more or less coherent discipline has had salutary and far-reaching effects. Archaeologists, philologists, historians, and patristic scholars are now enabledand required-to situate their work within the context of a discussion broader than that generated by their sub-fields. Also, it has begun to illuminate a period of ancient history neglected by classicists and ancient histor…
Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity
Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics
Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: a Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics.." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 29(1), pp. 111–112
The Development of the Komnenian Army: 1081-1180
Republican theory and political dissidence in Ioannes Lydos
The treatise of Ioannes Lydos On the Magistracies of the Roman State contains an argument against the legitimacy of the Roman emperors and in favour of the political freedom of the Republic. This argument targets Justinian in particular, whom Lydos compares to tyrants such as the early kings of Rome and the dynasts of the Republic. While most of the essay examines the details of Lydos' text, some consideration is given to its historical context a…
Julian, the Hierophant of Eleusis, and the Abolition of Constantius’ Tyranny
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George Akropolites: "The History." Introduction, Translation and Commentary . Ruth Macrides
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian by Peter Sarris
206 PHOENIX activist ecclesiastical policy ofMarcian at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Constantius' successors, ifwe follow Errington's account, largely kept aloof from religious disputes (210-211), despite the repeated attemptsby politically savvybishops likeAmbrose of Milan to draw them in, until the appointment of Theodosius on 19 January 379.1 Missing from Errington's bibliography, however, isT. D. Barnes, "The Collapse of theHomoeans inthe…
Transliteration of Books
Reception, Early Christian
Centos
Scholarship, Byzantine
The Kalends in Byzantium, 400 – 1200 AD: A New Interpretation
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
The original source for Tzimiskes’ Balkan campaign (971 AD) and the emperor’s classicizing propaganda
For their account of Ioannes Tzimiskes’ Balkan campaign of 971 AD against the Rus, Leon the Deacon and Ioannes Skylitzes independently used a common source that was written soon after the emperor’s triumph in Constantinople. This source classicized the emperor and his actions, drawing upon figures from the Roman Republic and including speeches and geographical digressions. This source accounts for the bulk of what we know of Tzimiskes’ reign
Elizabeth Depalma Digeser. A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution
This book is an example of the best kind of intellectual history. It shows how philosophical ideas drove events in imperial history: specifically, how emergent Neoplatonism in the third century a.d. resulted in the Great Persecution under the Emperor Diocletian. The Platonists' ideas about hermeneutics, ritual, and metaphysics usually fall under what a colleague of mine calls “the view from nowhere,” while historians of the persecution have only …
The Making of Hagia Sophia and the Last Pagans of New Rome
A figure overlooked in scholarship on Hagia Sophia is Phokas, the praetorian prefect of 532 under whom construction of the church began. He was a pagan who eventually took his own life in one of Justinian's purges. His initial supervision of the construction of Hagia Sophia is attested by Ioannes Lydos, himself a pagan intellectual, who praised Phokas in superlative terms, despite Phokas' infamous death. Consideration of all the evidence for an a…
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome
Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of, and sometimes by, Greek-speaking citizens who considered themselves fully Roman.
Byzantine Republic
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios’ Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Historians reconstruct the Byzantine conquest of Crete in 960-961 based largely on the History of Leo the Deacon and two variants of the continuation of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. However, the account in the continuation is modelled closely, in narrative structure, imagery, vocabulary and ideology, on Prokopios’ account of the conquest of North Africa by Belisarios in 533-534. This challenges our knowledge of the campaign but sheds in…
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios' Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Historians reconstruct the Byzantine conquest of Crete in 960‒961 based largely on the History of Leo the Deacon and two variants of the continuation of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. However, the account in the continuation is modelled closely, in narrative structure, imagery, vocabulary and ideology, on Prokopios' account of the conquest of North Africa by Belisarios in 533‒534. This challenges our knowledge of the campaign but sheds in…
The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in di…
Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
History (29 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (28 works) · Ancient history (22 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Art (14 works) · Classics (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Literature (11 works)