{"title":"Coming to terms with: Byzantium/Byzantine","authors":"Nicholas de Lange, John Haldon","doi":"10.5871/jba/012.a22","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\nThis is the first in a series of articles that look at the uses (and limitations) of pieces of academic terminology. This article considers the origins of the terms ‘Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantine’, and considers both their current use in academic discourse, and whether there are more appropriate alternatives.\n","PeriodicalId":93790,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Academy","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the British Academy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/012.a22","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is the first in a series of articles that look at the uses (and limitations) of pieces of academic terminology. This article considers the origins of the terms ‘Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantine’, and considers both their current use in academic discourse, and whether there are more appropriate alternatives.