"Byzantine History: State of the Field and Greek Perspectives", in History and Historiography in Greece: Recent Trends, edited by N. Christofis (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford, 2025), 41-58. By Yannis Stouraitis

https://www.academia.edu/69246309/_Byzantine_History_State_of_the_Field_and_Greek_Perspectives_in_History_and_Historiography_in_Greece_Recent_Trends_edited_by_N_Christofis_Berghahn_Books_New_York_and_Oxford_2025_41_58?rhid=37146019994&swp=rr-rw-wc-143663298&nav_from=61303f28-e3c4-464f-aafb-7664d987cb9c In 2014, the prominent Oxford historian of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Averil Cameron, published a book, titled Byzantine Matters, in which she presented a critical assessment of the current state of research in Byzantine History. Among other things, Cameron remarked that "Byzantium has been caught between the hostile, or at least prejudiced, assumptions of some classically trained scholars and the national and religious agendas of Greek and other Orthodox writers". 1 This statement points to the multiple challenges that research on the so-called Byzantine Empire faced in the ...