Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine Studies

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.