Classifying Christians: ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in late antiquity

An investigation into late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms.

Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S.

Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world.