Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Hieronymus Wolf's Silver Tongue: Early Byzantine Scholarship at the Intersection of Slavery, Colonialism, and the Crusades -- Chapter 2: Byzantine Archaeology: Teaching the Tenth and the Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 3: Byzantium in Exile -- Chapter 4: Methodological Imperialism -- Chapter 5: The Price of Admission -- Chapter 6: Byzantine Studies: A Field Ripe for Disruption -- Chapter 7: Subaltern Byzantinism -- Chapter 8: Byzantine and Western Narratives: A Dialogue of Empires -- Chapter 9: The Ethnic Process -- Chapter 10: Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine Studies -- Chapter 11: The South Kensington Museum, Byzantine Egyptian Textiles,and Art-Historical Imperialism -- Chapter 12: From EthnographicI llustration to Aphrodisian Magistrate Changing Perceptions of an Early Byzantine Portrait -- Chapter 13: Expanding and Decentering ByzantiumThe Acquisition of an Ethiopian Double-Sided Gospel Leaf -- Chapter 14: Equity, Accessibility, and New Narratives for Byzantine Artin the Museum -- Bibliography -- Index