Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature

Table of Contents

c o n t e n t s Preface vii 1. Ethnography in Late Antique Historiography 1 2. Byzantine Information-Gathering Behind the Veil of Silence 26 3. Explaining the Relative Decline of Ethnography in the Middle Period 44 4. The Genres and Politics of Middle Byzantine Ethnography 82 5. Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature 140 Epilogue: Looking to a New World 184 List of Abbreviations 187 Notes 189 Bibliography 229 Index 269 Acknowledgments 277 ...