The New Roman Empire is a one-volume narrative history of the eastern Roman Empire, the state modern writers call Byzantium, from the reforms of Diocletian in the late third century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Its author, Anthony Kaldellis, is a historian at the University of Chicago, and the book was published by Oxford University Press at the end of 2023 (many catalogues date it 2024) in more than a thousand pages with maps, color plates and glossaries.
Anthony Kaldellis · AuthorThe New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
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Anthony Kaldellis
About Anthony Kaldellis
Anthony Kaldellis is a Greek-American historian of Byzantium, born in Athens in 1971, who studied at the University of Wisconsin and Michigan, taught for many years at Ohio State University, and is now professor of classics at the University of Chicago. He has translated Procopius, Psellos and other Byzantine historians, and his books include Hellenism in Byzantium (2007), The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (2015), Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood (2017) and Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (2019). Across this work he argues that the people modern scholars call Byzantines understood themselves, and should be understood, as Romans living in a continuing Roman state. He also co-hosts a popular podcast on Byzantine history.