Do you have any book or listins of books that might flesh out these ideas? This is quite fascinating for me. Thanks in advance.
It's a fun read (if you get a good translation) and by itself shows that an awful lot of what people think is true about the Middle Ages is false: it's a history full of allusions to both Scripture and classical Greco-Roman mythology, written by a woman, and showing the manifest self-understanding of the Empire centered at Constantinople as the Roman Empire (as under the reforms of Diocletian, the Emperor is title both Emperor and Augustus, and 'sub-emperors' are title Caesars, Comnena refers to its citizens as "Romans" even though they all spoke Greek).
Beyond that, the most accessible thing are the writings of Fr. John Romanides and his followers. Most of them are available on the website www.romanity.org. By and large, this is the only modern source to take the approach of not making a distinction between 'Roman' and 'Byzantine'. He has an odd agenda, in some ways the complete reverse of Gibbon's, to reclaim the 'glories of Rome' for what he regards as its living continuation: the Orthodox Church. (There is an odd sense in which this last idosycratic view, if not strictly true, at least supportable: Orthodox canon law draws heavily on Roman civil law, notably the Novellae of Justinian, and the Orthodox Church is home to one institution that still functions under an Imperial charter: Mount Athos.)