Böcker av Diana Mishkova

This is a comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains - Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey - from the Enlightenment to the present day. Synthesising a sprawling mass of material largely unknown to academic audiences, it highlights the important place Byzantium's representations 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, in constant dialogue and competition with each other and in communication with extra-regional, western and Russian, academic currents. The book will be of value to medieval historians, Byzantinists and historians of historiography as well as students of and specialists in modern politics, cultural and intellectual history.

Whereas much discourse on the Balkans is from a western perspective, this book looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its "self" and the outside world, where the west is important but not sole referent. The book will interest scholars of transnationalism, politics, historical geography, border and area st

Whereas much discourse on the Balkans is from a western perspective, this book looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its "self" and the outside world, where the west is important but not sole referent. The book will interest scholars of transnationalism, politics, historical geography, border and area studies.