LEADER 04532nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910787544003321 005 20220304020219.0 010 $a0-8122-0840-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208405 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418177 035 $a(OCoLC)859162344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748390 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11597412 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11050815 035 $a(PQKB)11144397 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27257 035 $a(DE-B1597)449762 035 $a(OCoLC)979910471 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208405 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748390 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442044 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418177 100 $a20130320d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthnography after antiquity$b[electronic resource] $eforeign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature /$fAnthony Kaldellis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aEmpire and After 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51279-5 311 0 $a0-8122-4531-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography --$tChapter 2. Byzantine Information- Gathering Behind the Veil of Silence --$tChapter 3. Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period --$tChapter 4. The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography --$tChapter 5. Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature --$tEpilogue: Looking to a New World --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAlthough Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world. 410 0$aEmpire and after. 606 $aByzantine literature$xThemes, motives 606 $aCultural awareness$zByzantine Empire 606 $aEthnic attitudes in literature 606 $aEthnic attitudes$zByzantine Empire 606 $aEthnology$zByzantine Empire 606 $aForeign countries in literature 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aClassics. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aByzantine literature$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aCultural awareness 615 0$aEthnic attitudes in literature. 615 0$aEthnic attitudes 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aForeign countries in literature. 700 $aKaldellis$b Anthony$0293067 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787544003321 996 $aEthnography after antiquity$93809420 997 $aUNINA