Global Byzantium: Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Brubaker Leslie
Global Byzantium: Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Brubaker Leslie Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old 'Byzantium and its neighbours'…
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Global Byzantium: Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Brubaker Leslie
Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old 'Byzantium and its neighbours' theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. Global Byzantium needs also to address three further issues: cultural capital, the importance of the local, and the empire's strategic geographical location. A second thing that Global Byzantium - as a concept - explicitly endorses is comparative methodology.
This concept has been increasingly criticised, and what we now see emerging is a comparative methodology that relies on the concept of 'competitive sharing', not blind copying but rather competitive Cultural capital: in past decades it was fashionable to define Byzantium as culturally superior to western Christian Europe, and Byzantine influence was a key concept, especially in art historical circles.