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Byzantium and Balkan national identities, with Diana Mishkova

A conversation with Diana Mishkova about how the national historiographies of Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania cope with Byzantium — how they try to appropriate, incorporate, circumvent, or abjure it, and so always reinvent it in the process.

Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia, The conversation is based on Diana’s comprehensive and lucid analysis in her recent book Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe (Cambridge University Press 2023).

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Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website. You can listen to more episodes of Byzantium & Friends through PodbeanSpotify or Apple Podcasts

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