Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Forward to the Past -- 1 Aims and Scope -- 2 Some Preliminary Definitions -- 3 The "Continuity Question" Revisite

Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the sevent

The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provi

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy'