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Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire | | Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire | | | Main article: Names of the Greeks
The name Byzantine Empire is derived from the original Greek name for Constantinople, Byzantium. The name is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. The Empire's native Greek name was Ῥωμανία Romanía or Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων Basileía Romaíon, a direct translation of the Latin name of the Roman Empire, See also: Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - Identity continuity and consciousness, Byzantine Empire - Origin, Byzantine Empire - Early history, Byzantine Empire - The age of Justinian I, Byzantine Empire - The fight for survival, Byzantine Empire - Golden era, Byzantine Empire - The Comneni and the crusaders, Byzantine Empire - Underlying reasons for decline, Byzantine Empire - Decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - Legacy and importance, Byzantine Empire - Economy, Byzantine Empire - Science, Byzantine Empire - Religion, Byzantine Empire - Bibliography | | | Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - Bibliography, Byzantine Empire - Decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - Early history, Byzantine Empire - Economy, Byzantine Empire - Golden era, Byzantine Empire - Identity continuity and consciousness, Byzantine Empire - Legacy and importance, Byzantine Empire - Origin, Byzantine Empire - Religion, Byzantine Empire - Science, Byzantine Empire - The Comneni and the crusaders, Byzantine Empire - The age of Justinian I, Byzantine Empire - The fight for survival, Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire - Underlying reasons for decline, Western Roman Empire, List of Byzantine Empire-related topics, Roman Empire, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, History of Greece, History of the Ottoman Empire, History of the Balkans, History of Europe, History of the Middle East, History of Rome, Latin Empire, Lombards, Empire of Nicaea, Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of Epirus, Despotate of Morea, Byzantine currency, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy, Byzantine army, Byzantine battle tactics, Byzantine navy, Comnenus, Palaeologus, Eastern Orthodox Church Calendar, Derogatory use of Byzantine | | |
| | | Byzantine Empire: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire - The term Byzantine Empire
Main article: Names of the Greeks
The name Byzantine Empire is derived from the original Greek name for Constantinople, Byzantium. The name is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. The Empire's native Greek name was Ῥωμανία Romanía or Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων Basileía Romaíon, a direct translation of the Latin name of the Roman Empire, Imperium Romanorum. The term Byzantine Empire was introduced in 1557, about a century after the fall of Constantinople by German historian Hieronymus Wolf, who presented a system of Byzantine historiography in his work Corpus Historiae Byzantinae in order to distinguish ancient Roman from medieval Greek history without drawing attention to their ancient predecessors. Standardization of the term did not occur until the 18th century, when French authors such as Montesquieu began to popularize it. Hieronymus himself was influenced by the rift caused by the 9th century dispute between Romans (Byzantines as we render them today) and Franks, who, under Charlemagne's newly formed empire, and in concert with the Pope, attempted to legitimize their conquests by claiming inheritance of Roman rights in Italy thereby renouncing their eastern neighbours as true Romans. The Donation of Constantine, one of the most famous forged documents in history, played a crucial role in this. Henceforth, it was fixed policy in the West to refer to the emperor in Constantinople not by the usual "Imperator Romanorum" (Emperor of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Emperor of the Greeks) and the land as "Imperium Graecorum", "Graecia", "Terra Graecorum" or even "Imperium Constantinopolitanum".
This served as a precedent for Wolf who was motivated, at least partly, to re-interpret Roman history in different terms. Nevertheless, this was not intended in a demeaning manner since he ascribed his changes to historiography and not history itself. Later, a derogatory use of 'Byzantine' was developed.
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