The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century.

‘This volume does sterling work in bringing together the wide variety of difference-markers across the centuries and the many locations that the East Romans called home’ - Byzantinische Zeitschrift , Volume 117/1 (2024).

‘… the provision of this handbook on identity in Byzantium is an encouraging development for Byzantinists themselves and for scholars in adjacent disciplinary fields … This volume represents a snapshot of identity in Byzantium as that term was understood by many scholars around the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly as far as the political, ethnic and religious identities of the late antique and Middle Byzantine empires were concerned’ – The Byzantine Review .

Michael Edward Stewart is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia.

David Alan Parnell is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest, USA.

Conor Whately is an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.