{"product_id":"9783030788568","title":"New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNew Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGoldwyn, Adam J.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ \u003ci\u003eCapture of Thessaloniki\u003c\/i\u003e (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s \u003ci\u003eCapture of Thessaloniki \u003c\/i\u003e(1186), and Niketas Choniates’ \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s \u003ci\u003ehomo sacer \u003c\/i\u003eand Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s \u003ci\u003eNight \u003c\/i\u003eand Primo Levi’s \u003ci\u003eIf This is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eWitness Literature \u003c\/i\u003eemphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-08-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030788568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-78857-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 299\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49476682809484,"sku":"9783030788568","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030788568.jpg?v=1777997244","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030788568","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}