Original version
Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies. 2023, 133-142, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.6195052.15
Abstract
In a recent paper, Dan-el Padilla Peralta examined the publication and citation practices of three prominent North American classics journals to lay the foundations for exposing and demystifying the anti-Black and racially exclusionary genealogies that white Euro-American classicists have invented for themselves and their field.¹ Byzantine studies urgently requires similar treatment. The work of classicists such as Padilla offers more than just a useful starting point for Byzantinists, given the closely related and often coeval development of classical and Byzantine studies as scholarly disciplines.