A conversation with Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant about their book The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (University of Toronto Press 2020). Extremists groups such as white supremacists and ISIS use the Middle Ages to advocate for specific racial, religious, or gender orders, and promote violence as a means for attaining them. We talk about the contours and goals of these groups, their conflicted views of modernity and the Middle Ages, how Byzantium does or does not fit into this picture, and generally go off on many tangents. Also check out their complementary conversation with Danièle Cybulskie on The Medieval Podcast.
37. The study of Byzantine skeletons, with Chryssa Bourbou
36. Slavery in late antiquity and Byzantium, with Noel Lenski
35. Theophano: A Byzantine Tale, with Spyros Theocharis and Chrysa Sakel
33. The study of ethnic identities in Byzantium and beyond (Listener Questions II), with Brian Swain
32. Anastasius the Librarian, the greatest enemy of Byzantium you probably haven't heard of, with Réka Forrai
31. Ethnicity and empire in China and Byzantium, with Shao-yun Yang and Ying Zhang
30. Byzantium in modern Greek life (Listener Questions I), with Dimitris Krallis
29. The many identities of Hagia Sophia, past and present, with Bob Ousterhout
28. How we choose our research topics, with Tia Kolbaba
27. The hidden treasures of sigillography, with Jonathan Shea
26. Homer in Byzantium, with Baukje van den Berg
25. Disability in Byzantium, with Christian Laes
24. Social class in Byzantium, with Efi Ragia
23. Digital humanities and Byzantium, with Kuba Kabala
22. Social distancing in early Byzantium, with Ellen Muehlberger and David Brakke
21. Coping with pandemics, with Tina Sessa and Kyle Harper
20. Carolingian and Byzantine practices of empire compared, with Jennifer Davis
19. ”Get out of the way, Battal Gazi is Coming!”: Turkish films on Byzantium, with Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
18. Byzantine soft power in an age of decline, with Cecily Hilsdale
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