IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 503: Constructing and Deconstructing Byzantine Elements: Perceptions of a Medieval World in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio |
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| Moderator/Chair: | E. T. Dailey, Amsterdam University Press / Arc Humanities Press / Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo |
| Paper 503-a | Misplacing Byzantine Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 503-b | Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Construction of a Non-Byzantine History of Rus' (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Slavic |
| Paper 503-c | Architectural Archaeology in Soviet Ukraine: The Creation of a Rus' City Center in Chernihiv (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Slavic |
| Abstract | The legacy of the medieval Byzantine world was discovered, seemingly, for the first time in the late 19th century. This panel examines how new memories of the medieval world, both positive and negative, were created intentionally by scholars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to enhance a notion of national identity or to construct a past that eliminated Byzantine influence. Early 20th-century scholars and architects created new narratives of the medieval world for Coptic Egypt, Kievan Rus', and the Soviet Ukraine. |