Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire [Paperback]

What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production.

Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek and Hungarian. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of the reception and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire.

Mark?ta Kulh?nkov?is Associate Professor at the Institute of Classics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Przemyslaw Marciniakis Professor of Byzantine Literature and Head of Center for Studies on Literature and the Reception of Byzantium, at the University of Silesia, Poland. He is the author ofGreek Drama in Byzantine Times(2004), a Polish translation of the satireTimarion, and is the co-editor ofThe Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500(2016).

List of Figures
List of Contributors
The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium (Mark?ta Kulh?nkov?, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, & Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland)
Part One: Byzantium on Display. Scholarly Debates, Political Uses, Modern Reconstructionism
Chapter 1: Popularizing Byzantine Architecture the 1900 Paris World Exhibition, Balkan Nationalisms, and the Byzantine Revival (Fani Gargova, University of Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 2: East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate, 19th C. (Francesco Lovino, American Academy in Rome, Italy)
Chapter 3: Byzantium as a Political Tool (16571952). Nations, Colonialism, anlÓ-