Justinian den store og lærebøkene: En historiografisk analyse av engelskspråklige introduserende ettbinds lærebøker over Bysants' historie

Justinian the Great was the byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. There has been little research on the modern historiography surrounding him, including in English-language introductory one-volume textbooks on the history of Byzantium. This paper examines how this emperor has been presented and evaluated in four different English-language, introductory one-volume textbooks through historiographic analysis. These books are History of the Byzantine Empire by Alexander Vasiliev (1953), History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogrosky (1968), A History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren Treadgold (1997), and A Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire edited by Jonathan Shepard (2008…