Ethnography After Antiquity - Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Procopius of Caesarea, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of 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

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Anthony Kaldellis

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Kaldellis
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9780812245318
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4531-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Empire and After; Empire and After
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity