Description A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine.
And while the identities of minorities in the eastern empire are clear--contemporaries speak of Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, an.
Belknap Press Romanland: ethnicity and empire in byzantium, hardcover/anthony kaldellis
