Theme_Byzantine_Studies - Rogue History Notes

##### From Dr. John Walsh **"the comp exam stage is about demonstrating a thorough understanding of how literature relates to one another and what the implications are for those relationships to big public historical ideas (about knowledge, ethics, etc.) and practices (method, theory, "archive", etc.)."** --- ### Summary: This category is meant to provide a general overview of Byzantine Historiography and the development of the field (History, Archaeology and Numismatics). The goal is to identify gaps in knowledge transmission from Byzantine scholarship to public institutions, specifically museums. --- ### Questions to Address: Think of major Questions that needs to be addressed under this particular theme. - Field Development (Historiography) - Major Contributors - Gaps in Methods and Theory 1) Where is most of Byzantine Scholarship produced? a) What are the social, cultural and political influences affecting the creation of Byzantine scholarship? (This is where Stuart Hall may be applicable for method and theoretical approaches) 2) How should I discuss the development of Byzantine Identity within the field? Who are the Byzantines? How have they been defined? 3) How this scholarship has been received by its peers? 4) How are Byzantine overstrikes used to represent #Identity and [[Heritage]]? 5) How important is ethnic identity vs religious identity amoung the lower classes and the elite? 1) Would elite place religion above ethnicity/cultural identity or vice versa. ditto lower classes. ie provencial populations/subjects. 6) Who studied coins and how has this evoleved? 1) Art historians? --- ### Links [[Empire of Greeks to Byzantium]] [[Which Interdisciplinarity?]] --- ### Bibliography #### Byzantium History. Aschenbrenner, Nathanael, and Jake Ransohoff, eds. _The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe_. Extravagantes. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2021. Brown, Peter. 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