Ioannis Stouraitis, Roman identity in Byzantium: a critical approach, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 107/1 (2014) 175-220
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| Open access to paper-pdf here |
Collective identity in the so-called Byzantine Empire
is a much-debated issue that has drawn a lot of attention over the years. The
current paper attempts a critical assessment of the hitherto main lines of
thinking about Byzantine identity, focussing on the period between the seventh
and the thirteenth centuries. By proposing an alternative view on source
material based on a comprehensive theoretical framework, I argue that a
conceptualization of the collective identity of this medieval imperial social
order with its constantly fluctuating geopolitical and cultural boundaries
needs to be disconnected from essentialist and reifying views on perennial
ethnicity as well as from the modern phenomenon of the nation-state.
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