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Ethnography after Antiquity : Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empire and After SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnography after AntiquityDDC classification:
  • 880.09
LOC classification:
  • PA5115 -- .K35 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography -- 2. Byzantine Information-Gathering behind the Veil of Silence -- 3. Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period -- 4. The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography -- 5. Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature -- Epilogue: Looking to a New World -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Ethnography After Antiquity explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography -- 2. Byzantine Information-Gathering behind the Veil of Silence -- 3. Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period -- 4. The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography -- 5. Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature -- Epilogue: Looking to a New World -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Ethnography After Antiquity explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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