Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature by Anthony Kaldellis (Hardcover, 2013)

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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.