The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe Industrial or vocational training and six long years of

and six long years of loss weighing heavily on their shoulders

From a light smirr in Aberdeen to a \"it's raining knives and forks

” Despite the text’s literary prestige and cultural prominence

The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed

" —Meg Mitchell Moore

The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe Industrial or vocational training and six long years ofA gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt. The authors in this book focus on how and why the Byzantine past was used in Early Modern Europe: to diagnose