ABSTRACT
The chapter functions as a kind of summation of all previous discussions and looks at how ‘Byzantine’ globalism was constructed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, demonstrating the sometimes misleading impact that this construction has had up to the present day. Reynolds demonstrates that modern constructions of what is now Israel rely heavily on a mixture of political pragmatism – a by-product of imperial colonialism – and evangelical and fundamentalist Christian rhetoric. This chapter shows the degree to which a global image of Byzantium can undermine traditional images of Byzantine political protagonism.
