Here& #39;s the take: There was no such thing as the "Byzantine Empire", "Rome" "fell" in 1453 and every attempt at a late antique semantic break is born of chauvinistic Western European inability to reconcile starry-eyed reverence for Rome with its swarthier, oilier incarnation

NOOOOOO YOU CAN& #39;T JUST CALL YOURSELVES ROMANS AND SPEAK GREEK!!!! YOU& #39;RE BESMIRCHING THE FALSE IDEALIZED REPUBLICAN LEGACY I JERK OFF TO AND RUINING MY PERIODIZATIONERINO!!!!!

Haha orthodoxy goes brrr

In 2020 "Byzantine" reads like "Mahometan" or "Celestial". It& #39;s a foundational myth of the hubristic early modern construct of the "dark ages" as a conception of the medieval world and should be retired post haste before it does any more damage. Just imo

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