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Anthony Kaldellis Ethnography After Antiquity (Hardback) Empire and After

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Book Title
Ethnography After Antiquity
Title
Ethnography After Antiquity
Item Length
152mm
Subtitle
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Series
Empire and After
EAN
9780812245318
ISBN
9780812245318
Release Year
2013
ISBN-10
0812245318
Genre
History
Topic
Social Sciences
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Release Date
22/08/2013
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Item Height
229 mm
Author
Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
Anthropology, History
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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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 located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13
9780812245318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Publication Year
2013
Subject
Anthropology, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Type
Textbook
Author
Anthony Kaldellis
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm

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United States
Title_Author
Anthony Kaldellis
Series Title
Empire and after

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