Forty years on
The political ideology of the Byzantine empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11932697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Magdalino (0009-0009-6257-6156, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-26 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/byz.2015.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2587612013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies was launched in the middle of a decade that saw many landmark events in Byzantine scholarship. I remember them well, because this was the decade when I became a Byzantinist, and attended my first two international congresses of Byzantine Studies, the 14 th in Ceauşescu's Bucharest (1971), and the 15 th , in post-Junta Athens (1976). Apart from the acts of these congresses, the 1970s produced many memorable publications that shaped our field. It would take too long to list them all, and it would be invidious to make, and justify, a small selection. I have chosen to focus my retrospective look on one small monograph of 1975 that makes a comprehensive statement about Byzantium and is therefore a representative illustration of where Byzantine studies were forty years ago and how far they have come, or not come, since then. My book of the decade is L’idéologie politique de l’Empire byzantin by Hélène Ahrweiler (Paris 1975)
Ancient history · Byzantine architecture · Byzantine studies · Empire · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Statement (logic · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |