Byzantium in the Popular Imagination

List of Figures
List of Contributors
The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium (Marketa Kulhankova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, & Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland)
Part One: Byzantium on Display. Scholarly Debates, Political Uses, Modern Reconstructionism
Chapter 1: Popularizing Byzantine Architecture -the 1900 Paris World Exhibition, Balkan Nationalisms, and the Byzantine Revival (Fani Gargova, University of Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 2: East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate, 19th C. (Francesco Lovino, American Academy in Rome, Italy)
Chapter 3: Byzantium as a Political Tool (1657-1952). Nations, Colonialism, and Globalism (Ivan Foletti, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Adrien Palladino, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Chapter 4: The Prince and The Greeks. The Byzantine Baptizers of Prince Vladimir in Modern Russian Sculpture, Mosaic and Church Architecture (Roman Shliakhtin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany)
Chapter 5: Museum Interpretations of Byzantium (Sofia Mali, University of The Arts London, UK)
Part Two: Byzantium & Modern Media
Chapter 6: Byzantium in Comics (Lilia Diamantopoulou, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany)
Chapter 7: Games of Byzantium. The Image of the Empire in Three Strategy Videogames (Marco Fasolio, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Chapter 8: From History to Propaganda and Back: Byzantium in the Romanian Historical Cinema (Florin Leonte, Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Chapter 9: Imagination of Byzantium and the Byzantines in Modern Turkish Popular Literature and Cinema (Buket Kitapçi Bayri, independent)
Chapter 10: Byzantium in Greek Cinema (Konstantinos Chryssogelos, University of Patras, Greece)
Part Three: Byzantium & Literature
Chapter 11: "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts": Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction (Marketa Kulhankova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Chapter 12: Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea (Matthew Kinloch, University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 13: The Barbarians Will Always Stay: Rose Macaulay and the Futility of Empire (Olof Heilo, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey)
Chapter 14: M. Karagatsis's Byzantinism in his Sergios and Bacchos (1959) (Katerina Liasi, Independent)
Chapter 15: Fantastic(al) Byzantium: The Imagery of Byzantium in Speculative Fiction (Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland)
No Longer a Forgotten Empire? (Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland)
Afterword: Forging Textual Realities, or How to Write a 'Byzantine Mystery Story' (Panagiotis Agapitos, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
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