Ethnography After Antiquity : Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaldellis, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Foreign countries in literature.
Ethnology.
Ethnic attitudes in literature.
Ethnic attitudes.
Cultural awareness.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Pays etrangers dans la litterature.
Ethnologie > Empire byzantin.
Attitudes ethniques > Empire byzantin.
Attitudes ethniques dans la litterature.
Sensibilisation aux cultures > Empire byzantin.
Litterature byzantine > Themes, motifs.
Ethnology > Byzantine Empire.
Ethnic attitudes > Byzantine Empire.
Cultural awareness > Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine literature > Themes, motives.
Byzantine Empire.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography
  • Byzantine Information : Gathering Behind the Veil of Silence
  • Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period
  • The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography
  • Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature
  • Epilogue : Looking to a New World.

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