The Invention of Byzantium is an assembly of essays which boasts not only narrative and argument but usefulness, with the potential to summon academics and students to confront the process by which Byzantium became and remains a distinct other in the study of the Middle Ages. 

Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, eds. The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. Extravagantes 2. Harvard University Press, 2022.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Jesse W. Torgerson, Wesleyan University