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Here'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'T JUST CALL YOURSELVES ROMANS AND SPEAK GREEK!!!! YOU'RE BESMIRCHING THE FALSE IDEALIZED REPUBLICAN LEGACY I JERK OFF TO AND RUINING MY PERIODIZATIONERINO!!!!!
Haha orthodoxy goes brrr
Haha orthodoxy goes brrr
In 2020 "Byzantine" reads like "Mahometan" or "Celestial". It'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
