Perhaps the most interesting, and certainly the most perplexing problems facing the historian of Byzantine Anatolia are those that have to do with the languages, religions, and ethnic groups of the peninsula at various times. Continue reading “Ethnography in Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Asia Minor on the eve of the Turkish conquest”
The theory of climates; astrological ethnography in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire
Many Byzantine texts suggest that one’s origin from a particular area also could be the cause of certain defects of character. Continue reading “The theory of climates; astrological ethnography in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire”