Ethnography after Antiquity : Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Empire and After Series .
- Empire and After Series .
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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Byzantine literature-Themes, motives. Cultural awareness-Byzantine Empire. Ethnic attitudes in literature. Ethnic attitudes-Byzantine Empire. Ethnology-Byzantine Empire. Foreign countries in literature.