Coming to Terms With
Coming to terms with: Byzantium/Byzantine

jhaldon@princeton.edu
Abstract
This is the first in a series of articles that look at the uses (and limitations) of pieces of academic terminology. This article considers the origins of the terms ‘Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantine’, and considers both their current use in academic discourse, and whether there are more appropriate alternatives.
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ByzantiumByzantineConstantinopleRomanEastern Roman EmpireCopyright statement © The author(s) 2024. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License
Cite this article de Lange, N. & Haldon, J. (2024), ‘Coming to terms with: Byzantium/Byzantine’, Journal of the British Academy, 12(1/2): a22 https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/012.a22

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