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No 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.
Price: $151.00
Pages: 330
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages
Publication Date:
13 December 2023
ISBN: 9789004685895
Format: Hardcover
“Old Names, New Peoples is a methodologically innovative and intellectually ambitious contribution to the burgeoning field of late antique studies. Liccardo’s approach – focusing not on the historical content of ethnonyms but rather on their textual uses and epistemological implications – is both refreshing and rigorous.” – Marco Cristini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, in: I Quaderni Del m.æ.S. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium 23/1 (2025), p. 327 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2533-2325/22836]
Salvatore Liccardo, Ph.D. (2019), University of Vienna, is a postdoctoral researcher and team member of the ERC Synergy Grant HistoGenes. His research covers processes of identity formation, ethnic terminology, and geographical knowledge in late antique and early medieval sources.