The article deals with explication of the term Byzantinism from its origins to the contemporary days. The authoress analyses this term and its reflection in foreign (i.e. French, English and German) and Czech scholastic literature, especially in philosophical works and historiography from the mid-18th until the 20th century. On this basis, she focuses on explication of negative connotations of the term Byzantinism, bringing forth new aspects. She concludes that from the historical point of view, its negative connotation is not well-founded in political and journalistic speech.
Byzantine studies appeared relatively late in Spain compared to other European countries, where they had developed from the 17th century and found their culmination in the 19th century mainly in countries such as France, Germany and England. In Spain, it was not until the end of the 19th century that a few isolated philologists slowly began to turn their gaze to the Byzantine east. In the 20th century, some of the most important classical philologists began to include Byzantine authors as their subjects of study. However, the presence of philologists specialized in this area is relatively recent in Spain. The University of Granada was the first to introduce subjects related to history and Byzantine literature in Spain in the 1980s. The foundation of the Centre for Modern Greek and Cypriot Byzantine Studies of Granada in 1998 was an important boost for the development and systematization of this type of studies, not only in the Iberian Peninsula, but throughout the Hispanic area in general.
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