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14 février 2024
- doi: 10.58079/vtxp
Bulletin électronique de l'Institut d'étude de l'islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (ISMM)
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In the course of its long self-fashioning, “the West” (later “Europe”) set itself off as a superior alternative to a number of imagined Others, including the infidel world of Islam, the primitive nature of the New World, and even its own regressive past, the Middle Ages. This lecture will explore the unique role that Byzantium played in this process. While it too was identified as the antithesis of an idealized Europe, this was done in a specific way with lasting consequences down to the pre...