William Kinsella
DPhil Student
St Cross College
Research Topic
The Making of homo Byzantinus: The Creation and Consolidation of the "Greek" Empire in the Western European Mind
Looking into the development in Western perceptions and understanding of the Byzantine Empire as something fundamentally Roman in nature to one that is fundamentally "Greek". How and why did this shift occur? What are its implications? Does this shift impact our ability to analyse the Byzantine past?
