Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe PDF
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RIVAL BYZANTIUMS Thisisacomprehensivecomparativeviewofthewaythephenomenon of Byzantiumhas been treated bythe historiographiesof the polities that have emerged from its remains Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey from the Enlightenment to the present day. Synthesisingasprawlingmassofmateriallargelyunknowntoacademic audiences, it highlights the important place Byzantium’s representa tions occupy in the identity building and historical consciousness in that part of Europe. The diverse interpretations of the Byzantine phenomenon across and within these historiographic traditions are scrutinised against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts,inconstantdialogueandcompetitionwitheachotherandin communication with extra regional, western and Russian, academic currents.Thebookwillbeofvaluetomedievalhistorians,Byzantinists andhistoriansofhistoriographyaswellasstudentsofandspecialistsin modernpolitics,culturalandintellectualhistory. dianamishkovaisProfessorofHistoryandAcademicDirectorof theCentreforAdvancedStudyinSofia.SheistheauthorofBeyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) and Domestication of Freedom: Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and the editor of many collective volumes, including European Regions and Boundaries: AConceptualHistory(2017),EntangledHistoriesoftheBalkans, vols. II and IV (2014, 2017) and We, the People: Politics of National PeculiarityinSoutheasternEurope(2009). RIVAL BYZANTIUMS Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe DIANA MISHKOVA CentreforAdvancedStudySofia UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314 321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi 110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05 06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108499903 doi:10.1017/9781108499903 ©DianaMishkova2023 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2023 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-49990-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Acknowledgements pagevii NoteontheText viii Introduction 1 part i on the road to the grand narrative 9 1 Precursors:TheHistoriographyoftheEnlightenment 11 2 TheCenturyofHistory:ByzantiumintheBudding National-HistoricalCanons 35 3 InSearchofthe‘ScientificMethod’ 76 4 BetweenByzantineStudiesandMetahistory 123 5 ByzantiuminOttomanandEarlyRepublicanTurkish Historiography 170 part ii metamorphoses of byzantium after world war ii 197 6 FromHelleno-ChristianCivilisationtoRomanNation 199 7 Towards‘Slavo-Byzantina’and‘PaxSymeonica’: BulgarianScripts 219 8 HowByzantineIsSerbia? 242 9 Post-ByzantineEmpireorRomanianNationalState? 264 v vi Contents 10 IntheFoldofthe‘Turkish-IslamicSynthesis’ 286 EpilogueandConclusion 305 References 320 Index 350 Acknowledgements IamindebtedtoHistorischesKolleginMunich,thebirth-cityofmodern Byzantinestudies,forhostingmeduringacrucialphaseofmyresearchand providing me with precious time to work on the book. I have to thank RoumenDaskalovandtheteamoftheEntangledHistoriesoftheBalkans project,whoencouragedmetopressonwithmyinvestigationanddevelop an originally modest enterprise into a book. Tchavdar Marinov, Alex- Drace Francis, Ivan Elenkov, Konstantina Zanou, Ioannis Koubourlis, Ahmet Ersoy, Koray Durak and Ivan Biliarski helped me with my many queries. I am deeply grateful to the anonymous reviewers of the manu- script,whoofferedinvaluableadviceandinsightsandsavedmefrommany mistakes and misconceptions. If there are any left, they are all mine. Acknowledgement is also owed to the New Critical Approaches to the ByzantineWorldNetworkandtheOxfordCentreforByzantineResearch forinvitingmetopresentpartsofthebookandreceivevaluablefeedback and encouragement. The help Milena Varzonovtseva lent me with the References was indispensable. To the editorial staff at Cambridge University Press, the editor Michael Sharp in particular, I express my appreciationfortheirengagedmanagementandcooperation. Substantial parts of a chapter published in Roumen Daskalov and Alexander Vezenkov (eds.), Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vol. III: Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies (Leiden: Brill, 2015) have been integrated into the book. My thanks are due to the editor of the Balkan Studies Libraryforpermissiontousethisessayhere. vii Note on the Text SeveraldifferentsystemstotransliterateCyrillicscriptshavebeenused.For Serbian,thecommonlyacceptedLatintransliterationisused.ForBulgarian andRussian,English-deriveddigraphsareusedratherthancharacterswith diacritics:chforч,shforш,zhforжandtsforц.Theystandsfortheйin Bulgarian and Russian but also for the ы in Russian Cyrillic – a small inconvenience triggered by the preference for a more practical ‘English’ transliteration. Accordingly, the ю and я are transliterated as yu and ya. The Russian soft sign (ь) is denoted with an apostrophe (’). In order to distinguishbetweenthevowelaandtheschwa(ə),thecharacterăisusedfor the latter (namely, for what is ъ in the Bulgarian Cyrillic). Well-known geographicalnameshaveretainedtheirconventionalspelling(suchasSofia insteadofSofiya). viii 1988 Frontispiece: Detail from Byzantium by Svilen Blazhev ( ), Bulgarian National Gallery
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