Anne-Marie Cheny, Le cercle de byzantinistes: Comment bibliothécaires, savants, et voyageurs inventèrent Byzance (XVIe–XIXe siècle).

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how various stakeholders contributed to the invention and understanding of Byzantine culture from the 16th to 19th centuries.
• Literary analysis of historical texts
• Examination of bibliographic materials from the period
• Interviews with contemporary scholars
• Identified key figures in Byzantine studies and their contributions
• Showed the interplay between literary circles and cultural narratives
• Demonstrated the impact of travel literature on the understanding of Byzance