List of Figures List of Contributors The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium (Marketa Kulhankova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, & Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland) Part One: Byzantium on Display. Scholarly Debates, Political Uses, Modern Reconstructionism Chapter 1: Popularizing Byzantine Architecture the 1900 Paris World Exhibition, Balkan Nationalisms, and the Byzantine Revival (Fani Gargova, University of Vienna, Austria) Chapter 2: East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate, 19th C. (Francesco Lovino, American Academy in Rome, Italy) Chapter 3: Byzantium as a Political Tool (16571952). Nations, Colonialism, and Globalism (Ivan Foletti, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Adrien Palladino, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Chapter 4: The Prince and The Greeks. The Byzantine Baptizers of Prince Vladimir in Modern Russian Sculpture, Mosaic and Church Architecture (Roman Shliakhtin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany) Chapter 5: Museum Interpretations of Byzantium (Sofia Mali, University of The Arts London, UK) Part Two: Byzantium & Modern Media Chapter 6: Byzantium in Comics (Lilia Diamantopoulou, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany) Chapter 7: Games of Byzantium. The Image of the Empire in Three Strategy Videogames (Marco Fasolio, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) Chapter 8: From History to Propaganda and Back: Byzantium in the Romanian Historical Cinema (Florin Leonte, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic) Chapter 9: Imagination of Byzantium and the Byzantines in Modern Turkish Popular Literature and Cinema (Buket Kitapci Bayri, independent) Chapter 10: Byzantium in Greek Cinema (Konstantinos Chryssogelos, University of Patras, Greece) Part Three: Byzantium & Literature Chapter 11: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction (Marketa Kulhankova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Chapter 12: Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea (Matthew Kinloch, University of Oslo, Norway) Chapter 13: The Barbarians Will Always Stay: Rose Macaulay and the Futility of Empire (Olof Heilo, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey) Chapter 14: M. Karagatsiss Byzantinism in his Sergios and Bacchos (1959) (Katerina Liasi, Independent) Chapter 15: Fantastic(al) Byzantium: The Imagery of Byzantium in Speculative Fiction (Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland) No Longer a Forgotten Empire? (Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland) Afterword: Forging Textual Realities, or How to Write a Byzantine Mystery Story (Panagiotis Agapitos, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) INDEX
