Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire (New Directions in Byzantine Studies)

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium Przemysław Marciniak
Part 1 Byzantium on Display: Scholarly Debates, Political Uses, Modern
Reconstructionism
	1 Popularizing Byzantine Architecture: The 1900 Paris World Exhibition, Balkan Nationalisms and the Byzantine Revival Fani Gargova
	2 East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate, Nineteenth Century Francesco Lovino
	3 Byzantium as a Political Tool (1657–1952): Nations, Colonialism and Globalism Ivan Foletti and Adrien Palladino
	4 The Prince and the Greeks: The Byzantine Baptizers of Prince Vladimir in Modern Russian Sculpture, Mosaic and Church Architecture  Roman Shliakhtin
	5 Museum Interpretations of Byzantium Sofia Mali
Part 2 Byzantium and Modern Media
	6 Byzantium in Comics Lilia Diamantopoulou
	7 Games of Byzantium: The Image of the Empire in Three Strategy Videogames Marco Fasolio
	8 From History to Propaganda and Back: Byzantium in the Romanian Historical Cinema Florin Leonte
	9 Imagination of Byzantium and the Byzantines in Modern Turkish Popular Literature and Cinema Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
	10 Byzantium in Greek Cinema and Television Konstantinos Chryssogelos
Part 3 Byzantium and Literature
	11 ‘Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts’: Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction  Markéta Kulhánková
	12 Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea Matthew Kinloch
	13 The Barbarians Will Always Stay: Rose Macaulay and the Futility of Empire Olof Heilo
	14 M. Karagatsis’s Byzantinism in his Sergios and Bacchos (1959)  Katerina Liasi
	15 Fantastic(al) Byzantium: The Imagery of Byzantium in Speculative Fiction Przemysław Marciniak
Conclusion: No Longer a Forgotten Empire? Przemysław Marciniak
Afterword: Forging Textual Realities, or How to Write a ‘Byzantine Mystery Story’ Panagiotis Agapitos
Index