A conversation with Eugene Smelyansky on the invention of ideologically useful versions of Byzantium in modern Russia. We talk about the much more limited engagement with Byzantium in imperial Russia and the reasons behind some of the current obsessions with it.
Eugene Smelyansky is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University. His research interests focus on the history of religious persecution in medieval Central Europe and the histories of medieval urban culture, society, and environment. The conversation is based on Eugene’s just-published book on Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts (Arc Humanities Press 2024), which looks also at the current re-imagining of Russia’s own medieval past and that of Western Europe.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago.
Негізгі бет Ойын-сауық Imaginary Byzantiums in modern Russia, with Eugene Smelyansky
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