Ethnography After Antiquity : : Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature / / Anthony Kaldellis.
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically lo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empire and After
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography
- Chapter 2. Byzantine Information- Gathering Behind the Veil of Silence
- Chapter 3. Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period
- Chapter 4. The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography
- Chapter 5. Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature
- Epilogue: Looking to a New World
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments