Ideas Roadshow Conversations: Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché - A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this wide-ranging conversation explores her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite its having been a military and cultural powerhouse for more than a millennium. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, **Beyond the High-School Narrative**, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: - Becoming A Byzantinist - Inspiration and motivation - Historical Background - Byzantine beginnings - The High-School Narrative - History as a cultural mirror - Recovering Truth - A never-ending goal - Building Knowledge - Standing on the shoulders of giants - Annotated Discoveries - Leo the Mathematician, for example - A Translational Discovery - From Arabic to Greek, surprisingly - Arrows of Causality - Consequential greatness - Decline - A matter of opinion? - Extracting Meaning - Interpreting human experiences - Ever-Moving Targets - Arab-Greek bilingualism and its implications **About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series (100 books):** Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates, but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. Howard Burton holds a PhD in physics and an MA in philosophy, and was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this wide-ranging conversation explores her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite its having been a military and cultural powerhouse for more than a millennium.This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Beyond the High-School Narrative, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Becoming A Byzantinist - Inspiration and motivationII. Historical Background - Byzantine beginningsIII. The High-School Narrative - History as a cultural mirrorIV. Recovering Truth - A never-ending goalV. Building Knowledge - Standing on the shoulders of giantsVI. Annotated Discoveries - Leo the Mathematician, for exampleVII. A Translational Discovery - From Arabic to Greek, surprisinglyVIII. Arrows of Causality - Consequential greatnessIX. Decline - A matter of opinion?X. Extracting Meaning - Interpreting human experiencesXI. Ever-Moving Targets - Arab-Greek bilingualism and its implications About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series: Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.

This book is based on an in-depth conversation with Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this conversation provides a detailed exploration of her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite having been a military and cultural powerhouse for more than a millennium. This carefully-edited book includes a detailed introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and connections with other books in the Ideas Roadshow Conversations series. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this wide-ranging conversation provides a detailed exploration of her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite having been a military and cultural powerhouse for more than a millennium.This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Beyond the High-School Narrative, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. How