Re: New book on the Romans (?"Romans")

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On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:04 AM Laval Hunsucker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> * "obscured behind a name made up by later generations"  *
>
> * a "history of western denialism" *
>
>
> *"why the commonly accepted phrase 'Byzantine empire' is an anachronism"
>  *
>
> *"scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two
> centuries for political reasons"*
>
>
> *"Why does my field not do this? . . . there's no definitions of what we
> mean by 'empire' in that context . . . ethnicities of the Byzantine Empir=
e
> . . . this is never discussed either"*
>
>
> *"The efforts by the Catholic Church to de-legitimize the Eastern Empire =
as
> the legatee of ancient Rome denied the self-identification of its residen=
ts
> as Romans"*
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>
> *etc.*
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>
>
> *I would be very interested to hear on the list from anyone who has read =
 (
> OSU Department of Classics Chair )  Anthony Kaldellis' _Romanland :
> Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium_  ( published just over nine months ago
> under Harvard U.Pr.'s Belknap Press imprint -- ISBN 9780674986510 )  and
> has strong feelings about his claims, arguments, methodology, and/or
> conclusions .   *
>
>
> *I'm particularly interested in any comments/arguments from anyone who  (
> strongly ? )  disagrees with the case which Kaldellis is making in his ne=
w
> book .   *
>
>
> *Or, does in fact everyone  ( now finally ? )  agree ?   *
>
>
> *[ The above quotations are ones I which took -- as an inducement -- from
> H.U.Pr.'s webpage at *
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> *
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.h=
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> *
>
> *and the New Books Network webpage at *
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> *
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fnewbo=
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> , *
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> *both including the podcast interview with the author . ]   *
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>
> *- Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland  *
>