Le discours ethnographique à Byzance
Subtitle: continuité et rupture
By: Anthony Kaldellis ; traduit de l'anglais par Ch. Messis et P. Odorico
Contributors: Messis, Charis, translator; Odorico, Paolo, translator; École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Series: Séminaires Byzantins -- 2; Séminaires byzantins -- 2
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9782251444543
Subjects: Byzantine literature; Ethnic relations in literature
Description: This book is about the study of ethnography as a literary genre in Byzantium, that is to say, the Byzantine descriptions of foreign peoples. This is not a study of the Byzantine population according to the methods of modern ethnographic discipline, which would be impossible, given the nature of the sources. The book considers the ethnography as a genre, to emphasize that this is a literary product with a structure and a more or less stable content, despite the fact that its forms and objectives vary from one author to another.
Notes: Papers from conferences held at EHESS, Paris in 2010.

In French; translated from English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-239) and index.