Benjamin Anderson

About

Benjamin Anderson is a scholar specializing in the history of art with a focus on Byzantine studies and the long nineteenth century. His work involves exploring diverse local encounters and critical historiographies within the field. Anderson has contributed to the academic discourse through edited volumes that address themes such as urban space and political action in east Rome, alternative ontologies and the study of the past, and the colonialist dimensions of Byzantine studies. His recent editorial projects include collaborations with other scholars, reflecting a commitment to interdisciplinary and critical approaches to art history and Byzantine studies.

Research topics

• Geography
• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Philosophy
• Mathematics
• Linguistics
• Statistics

Selected publications

• Imagined Communities

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 81 citations

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  The nation is imagined as limited because even tile largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. The idea of a sociological organism moving calendrically through homogeneous, empty time is a precise analogue of the idea of the nation, which also is conceived as a solid community moving steadily down history. The cultural products of nationalism – poetry, prose fiction, music, plastic arts – show this love…

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• Public clocks in late antique and early medieval Constantinople

  Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik · 2015-01-01 · 46 citations

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  Artikel: Panagiotis A. AGAPITOS, Grammar, genre and patronage in the twelfth century: A scientific paradigm and its implications Benjamin ANDERSON, Public clocks in late antique and early medieval Constantinople Ken DARK - Jan KOSTENEC, The Patriarchal Palace at Constantinople in the Seventh Century: Locating the Thomaites and the Makron Verena FUGGER - Rudolf STEFEC, Das illuminierte Typikon des Eugenios-Klosters in Trapezunt Christian GASTGEBER, Griechischstudium im italienischen Humanismus. E…

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• “An alternative discourse”: Local interpreters of antiquities in the Ottoman Empire

  Journal of Field Archaeology · 2015-06-09 · 43 citations

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  The premise of Ottoman indifference to "antiquities" was already widely assumed by early modern travelers and archaeologists and continues to inform contemporary discussion of cultural patrimony in post-Ottoman nations. However, it is contradicted by numerous accounts of local interpretations of ancient monuments and local resistance to the efforts of outsiders to remove antiquities. Local interpretations of monuments constituted an alternative discourse that cohered around a set of recurring co…

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• Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2017-01-01 · 22 citations

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  Introduction: solitude and community -- 1. Tyranny and splendor -- 2. Declaration and transaction -- 3. Carolingian consensus -- 4. Byzantine dissensus -- Conclusion

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• Environmental Adaptations

  Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 16 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• O. W. Wolters

  17 shared

• Stanley J. O'Connor

  Cornell University

  16 shared

• Keith Taylor

  12 shared

• George Kahin

  Cornell University

  8 shared

• George McT. Kahin

  7 shared

• Grant K. Goodman

  5 shared

• George Kahin

  Cornell University

  5 shared

• Richard J. Smethurst

  University of California, Berkeley

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Associat…
• Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy o…

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