Kaldellis

Sometimes I cite publications almost at random, since these positions can be found almost everywhere

Political history is recounted pragmatically in modern scholarship, in whatever way each scholar thinks the dynamics of power played out each time

This [Louth] sounds instead like a displaced metaphor for what is going on in modern scholarship: We would like to abandon the term Roman in dealing with the Byzantines

presented correctly as a consensus, though unfortunately agreeing with it