Book contents
- Rival Byzantiums
- Rival Byzantiums
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I On the Road to the Grand Narrative
- Chapter 1 Precursors
- Chapter 2 The Century of History
- Chapter 3 In Search of the ‘Scientific Method’
- Chapter 4 Between Byzantine Studies and Metahistory
- Chapter 5 Byzantium in Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historiography
- Part II Metamorphoses of Byzantium after World War II
- References
- Index
Chapter 5 - Byzantium in Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historiography
from Part I - On the Road to the Grand Narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- Rival Byzantiums
- Rival Byzantiums
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I On the Road to the Grand Narrative
- Chapter 1 Precursors
- Chapter 2 The Century of History
- Chapter 3 In Search of the ‘Scientific Method’
- Chapter 4 Between Byzantine Studies and Metahistory
- Chapter 5 Byzantium in Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historiography
- Part II Metamorphoses of Byzantium after World War II
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores and juxtaposes the discussions of Byzantium and the Byzantine-Ottoman institutional (dis)continuity as well as the evolving attitudes towards cultural material heritage in the late-Ottoman and early Republican Turkish historiography. During the last decades of the Ottoman empire, the presentations of the Byzantine institutions and material heritage and the assessments of their importance for the Ottoman successor were characterised by considerable plurality, compared to the early Republican (Kermalist) period, when the robustly ethnocentric ‘Turkish History Thesis’ came to overpower the Turks’ historical imagination. The influential work of Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, rejecting Byzantine influence on the Ottomans, and his contribution to the Turkification of Ottoman imperial history is discussed.
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- Rival ByzantiumsEmpire and Identity in Southeastern Europe, pp. 170 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022