Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700Roger S. Bagnall Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path to developing the Coptic Christian culture that we see fully only after the end of Byzantine rule. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Egypt to treat this entire period including the first half-century of Arab rule. Twenty-one renowned specialists present the history, society, economy, culture, religious institutions, art and architecture of the period. Topics covered range from elite literature to mummification and from monks to Alexandrian scholars. A full range of Egypt's uniquely rich source materials - literature, papyrus documents, letters, and archaeological remains - gives exceptional depth and vividness to this portrait of a society, and recent archaeological discoveries are described and illustrated. |
Contents
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 47 |
Section 3 | 83 |
Section 4 | 103 |
Section 5 | 124 |
Section 6 | 137 |
Section 7 | 138 |
Section 8 | 139 |
Section 22 | 202 |
Section 23 | 207 |
Section 24 | 226 |
Section 25 | 244 |
Section 26 | 271 |
Section 27 | 291 |
Section 28 | 297 |
Section 29 | 309 |
Section 9 | 140 |
Section 10 | 144 |
Section 11 | 150 |
Section 12 | 151 |
Section 13 | 152 |
Section 14 | 155 |
Section 15 | 163 |
Section 16 | 167 |
Section 17 | 189 |
Section 18 | 192 |
Section 19 | 194 |
Section 20 | 196 |
Section 21 | 201 |
Section 30 | 368 |
Section 31 | 378 |
Section 32 | 390 |
Section 33 | 416 |
Section 34 | 419 |
Section 35 | 420 |
Section 36 | 421 |
Section 37 | 423 |
Section 38 | 427 |
Section 39 | 428 |
Section 40 | 429 |
Section 41 | 437 |
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administration Aegyptus Ägypten Alexandria Ancient Antinoopolis Aphrodite Apions Apophthegmata Patrum Arab archaeological architecture archives ascetic Athanasius attested Bagnall Banaji basilica Bawit bishop Byzantine Egypt Byzantine period cell chapter Christian church cities classical clergy Constantinople copte Coptic Coptic literature cult culture dated desert Dioskoros documentary documents early Byzantine Egyptian elite empire evidence example excavations Fayyum fifth Figure fourth century Fustat Fut¯uh Gascou gender Greek Grossmann Hermopolis imperial inscriptions Islamic Jeme Justinian Keenan Kellia l'Égypte land Late Antique Egypt Late Antiquity later Roman Latin Leuven Libanius literary MacCoull martyrs Menouthis miaphysite Minnen Monastery monastic monasticism monks monophysite Muslim nome Nonnus Oxyrhynchos P.Cair.Masp P.Lond P.Oxy pagan paintings Panopolis papyri papyrological Paris patriarch Philoponus Phoibammon praeses Rassart-Debergh remains rhetoric Roman Egypt Rome saints Saqqara seventh century Shenoute shrines sixth century social sources surviving temple textiles texts tombs tradition translation village Wipszycka women