The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium (Routledge History Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine not covered to date through its international case studies. Most studies dealing with the modern reception of Byzantium focus on its role in the formation of national or European identities, or as an exotic ‘other,’ without covering the various spheres of culture, beyond history writing and literature, within which the reception of Byzantium may be discerned.This Handbook responds to the need perceived by scholars and students for a publication that brings definition and clarity to this growing field of Byzantine studies.The volume is structured around seven thematic sections - histories, politics, architecture, art, display, literature, and embodied and performative culture - each opened by a substantial conceptual essay from a leading scholar, and expa