{"product_id":"old-names-new-peoples-listing-ethnonyms-in-late-antiquity-9789004685895","title":"Old Names, New Peoples: Listing Ethnonyms in Late Antiquity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo people is nameless, and lists of words are as old as writing systems. And yet, both subjects can appear unpromising to historians. This volume shows the contrary by examining the various meanings and functions of ethnonyms in Late Antiquity: added to catalogues of provinces, they reflect the political messages and the regulating power of the imperial bureaucracy; included in schoolbooks, they mirror educational practices and reveal the geographical and ethnic landscapes taught at school; placed on a map, they help make sense of the world in times of transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface      List of Figures      Abbreviations      General Introduction    1 Ethnonyms and Ethnicity: Some Methodological Reflections    2 Ethnonyms: Identifying the Sources    3 Listing Ethnonyms alongside Other Cognitive Processes and Literary Strategies      Part 1: Listing and Declaiming Ethnonyms   Introduction    1 Listing in Late Antiquity    2 Aesthetics of Listing – the Example of Decimus Magnus Ausonius      1 The Laterculus Veronensis    1 The Forgotten Attachment: The Ethnic Catalogues    2 The Gentes of the Far North and West    3 The Gentes of the Rhine    4 The Gentes of the Danube    5 The Non-European Gentes    6 Conclusions: Lexical Adaptations and Ethnic Transformations in Late Antique Gaul      Part 2: Listing and Memorizing Ethnonyms   Introduction    1 Lists for Learning    2 Listing Ethnonyms in Schoolbooks – Vibius Sequester and  Lucius Ampelius      2 The Cosmographia of Julius Honorius    1 From a Student, for Future Students    2 Gentes of the Eastern Quarter    3 Gentes of the Western Quarter    4 Gentes of the Northern Quarter    5 Gentes of the Southern Quarter    6 Conclusions: The Educational Value and Political Overtones of Lists of Place Names and Ethnonyms      Part 3: Listing and Locating Ethnonyms   Introduction    1 Conceptualizing and Listing Space    2 And yet it moves. Beyond Lists in Late Antique Geography      3 The Expositio totius mundi et gentium    1 A Curious Author and a Peculiar Guidebook of the Roman World    2 A (Partially) Utopian and (Very Much) Ethnic East    3 A (Mostly) Civic terra Romanorum and the gentes barbarorum  at Its Borders    4 Ethnic and Spatial Identities in the Expositio      4 The Tabula Peutingeriana and Its Ethnonyms    1 Introduction    2 The Ethnonyms on the Tabula Peutingeriana: General Aspects    3 Beyond the Rhine: Really a Medieval Addition?    4 Ethnic Double Names    5 A (Relatively) Unimaginative Ethnic Landscape    6 Persae: Explicit and Implicit Traces of a Special Ethnonym    7 Conclusions: Ethnonyms and a Geography of Otherness   General Conclusions   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210875724119,"sku":"9789004685895","price":109.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/old-names-new-peoples-listing-ethnonyms-in-late-antiquity-9789004685895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}