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Byzantists

People that have written about the Byzantine Empire to have an expertise or considered an authority in the field

Historian	Important demographic facts	Noted expertise and publications	Documented views by others	Other comments, includes undocumented expertise or critiques as observed by User:Biz
Kaldellis, Anthony	Greek and American	Middle period Narrative on the entire era (Book, The New Roman Empire) Early period army (with Marion Kuse, 2023 Book The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630)	Art historian Cecily J. Hilsdale: His revisionist history has a tone but proposing the empire was the monarchy of the post-republic versus a theocracy is a foundational change https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7834/phoenix.69.3-4.0439 Walter Kaegi has given high praise for his revisionism https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956069	Challenges Western bias in history so his work is revisionist but makes it abundantly clear where so not dangerous Has translated Greek sources so has contributed new perspectives from this work
Treadgold, Warren	b. 1949), American	Middle period Army Narrative on the entire era	Kaegi calls his work dangerous https://www.jstor.org/stable/1357541 John Haldon: he ignored modern scholarship consistently and scholars will not find it of much use https://www.jstor.org/stable/40109088 Lawerence Tritle: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2651934 Michael Angold: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2697208 FJ George Dennis SJ: Claims continuity from the 7th century, iconoclasm is not a big deal both of which are contrary to convention: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3169857
Howard-Johnston, James	British	Middle period
Kazhdan, Alexander	(1922–1997) Soviet-American	The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium where he wrote 20% of it and edited the volume Agragian, aristocracy, cities, economy, culture, literature https://www.jstor.org/stable/1291758 11th and 12th centuries		Introduced Russian scholarship to the west and vice-versa Wide coverage of topics compared to other historians
Ostrogorsky, George	(1902–1976), Yugoslav-Russian			Wrote a complete narrative
Hilsdale, Cecily J.		Byzantine Art Diplomacy in the late era (with Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline)
Hendy, Michael	1942–2008, British	economy	Treadold regards him as the authority on the economy https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/530263 Times obituary: economy expert https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hendy-michael-f-1942-2008
Kaegi, Walter			Howard-Johnston critises him: https://www.jstor.org/stable/576813
Haldon, John			Howard-Johnston gives him positive reviews on a book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3489639
Howard-Johnston, James

Multi-author compendiums

Theme	Books	Comments
Economy	Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c.300-1450 The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century.