Maps And Panegyrics: Roman Geo-Ethnographical Rhetoric In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages
Natalia Lozovsky
Eumenius' map, both described in a panegyric and serving as one, presents convenient starting point for an exploration of the intersection between descriptions lands peoples imperial rhetoric late antiquity Middle Ages. Roman geo-ethnography, steeped ideology, continued to provide models even after Empire West ceased exist political sense. Carolingian rhetoric, building on prestige Empire, presented Franks successors legitimate heirs Romans. The influence maps texts which creatively developed was not limited scholarly education. Rather, medieval period geo-ethnography also contributed ideology politics by enriching understanding justification translatio imperii . Keywords: Carolingian; Eumenius map; panegyrics; geo-ethnographical
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