Byzantium after the Nation The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

CHAPTER I. Introduction 1. The Discipline of History: Canons and Divergences 2. The Problem of Continuity: Theories of Origin and Political Imperatives 3. In the Shadow of the Empire 4. Describing the Network: The Ottoman Framework and its CollapseCHAPTER II. The Iconoclast Byzantium of Greek Nationalism 1. Manuel Gedeon's Perception of History 2. A Periodization 3. Zambelios's Transcendant Byzantium: From Aristotle to Hegel 4. Paparrigopoulos's Phanariot Byzantium and French Imperial Nationalism 5. France and Russia in Constantinople: Toward an Interpretation of the Great Idea 6. Helleno-Ottomanism: The Response of Constantinople 7. Heretical Byzantium in The History of the Greek Nation 8. Iconoclasm as a Conspiracy of the Monarchy 9. Iconoclasm as Reformation 10. Gedeon's Medieval HellemismHellenism: The Zambelios-Paparrigopoulos Construct Scheme and the Ottoman Divergence 11. Footnotes: The Denunciation of Helleno-Orthodoxy 12. Byzantium as a Metaphor: Greeks and Slavs 13. The Iconoclast Byzantium and the Break from Greek Historiography 14. Byzantium as a Metonymy: The Church and the Ottoman State 15. Ecumenism as a Romantic Reconstruction 16. Histories of the Ottoman Empire CHAPTER III. The Medieval Antiquity of the Bulgarian Historiography 1. The Canon of Bulgarian Historiography: the Origin Model 2. Bulgarians: Vandals, Illyrians, or Macedonians? 3. Drinov's History: The Slavicisation of the Bulgarians 4. Krâstevi?'s Thesis: The Bulgarians are Huns (The Positive Use of Byzantine Chronography) 5. Drinov's Thesis: The Bulgarians are Slavs (The Negative Use of Byzantine Chronography) 6. Krâstevi?'s Response: The Huns are Slavs 7. The Romantic Reconstruction of Imperial Discourse: Some Conclusions 8. Povestnost Instead of Historija: Georgi Rakovski's Hyper-Hermeneutic Model 9. The Balkans as East: Charilaos Dimopoulos' History of the Bulgarians CHAPTER IV. Byzantinisms and the Third Rome: Russian Imperial Nationalism 1. Konstantin Leont'ev: On the Edge of Two Epistemological Paradigmes 2. Leont'ev's Byzantism 3. The Middle Ages as a Canonical Model 4. Byzantism as Imperial Discourse: The Parity of Russians and Ottomans 5. Leont'ev's Slavism: Greeks/Bulgarians, Germans/Czechs 6. The Three Romes 7. A Romantic Reconstruction of History: the Persians' Vindication 8. Leont'ev and Marko Balabanov: Byzantism as a Bridge 9. The Meaning of Progress and the Possibility of an Ottoman Nation 10. Byzantium and the Groundless Accusation of Ethno-Phyletism 11. Balabanov and Renan: Balkans Will Turn into a Volcano 12. Byzantium and Great Idea: The Serbian Perspective 13. Ivan I. Sokolov's Byzantinism 14. Pan-Orthodox Ecumenism and Byzantinisms: Gedeon's Two Moments CHAPTER V. The Roman Byzantium of the Albanian Historiography 1. Nam?k Kemal and Renan 2. The Rupture of Pan-Islamic Ecumenism: Şemseddin vs. Sami Frashëri 3. Between Ancient Greeks and Modern Europeans: Islamic Civilization as a Mediator 4. The De-Arabification of Islam 5. The Management of Time and Space in Islam 6. From the Islamic Ummah to the Albanian Nation: The Return of the Pelasgians 7. The Problem of Discontinuity in Albanian History 8. Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos and the Pelasgians 9. The De-Islamification of Albanian History 10. Pan-Islamic Ecumenism and Roman Byzantium: The Immanence of Empire CHAPTER VI. Byzantium as ....