Provides information on the society, economy and culture of Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 AD to the middle of the 5th century AD. The author draws upon documentary and archaeological sources to describe the life of Egyptians living in their Greco-Roman cities and villages.
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[This book] represents the most expansive study of Egyptian society in transition yet produced, both voluminously documented and self-critical in its use of papyrological evidence. . . . A tremendous contribution to our understanding of social, economic, and administrative activity in early Byzantine Egypt--and therefore to our knowledge of the late Roman Empire as a whole. -- David Frankfurter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This excellent book assesses the society, economy, and culture of Egypt in the fourth century. . . . Whether dealing with changes in diet or the legal rights of slaves [Bagnall] paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of a century that straddles the end of the Classical world and the beginning of something entirely new. -- Choice --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
This excellent book assesses the society, economy, and culture of Egypt in the fourth century. . . . Whether dealing with changes in diet or the legal rights of slaves [Bagnall] paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of a century that straddles the end of the Classical world and the beginning of something entirely new. -- Choice --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"This is an immensely authoritative and detailed work that for many years will be the standard scholarly book on Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries."--Alan K. Bowman, Christ Church, University of Oxford
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This book discusses the economy and society of Byzantine and Roman Egypt, from 284 AD to the fifth century. Providing excellent archaeological sources, consisting mostly of papyri, the author has provided a well-documented and detailed account of the civilization, covering many topics : the environment, the people, the language, the cities, as well as taxation and religion. A scholarly book for the interested.
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Egypt captured the imagination of ancient visitors and readers just as it has of modern. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
praepositus pagi, barley taxes, bouleutic class, former gymnasiarch, billon coinage, census declarations, nome capitals, curial class, liturgical obligations, defensor civitatis, urban landowners, former high priest, tax grain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Upper Egypt, Soknopaiou Nesos, Nag Hammadi, Aurelius Isidoros, Averil Cameron, Great Oasis, Red Sea, Asia Minor, Dioskoros of Aphrodito, Lake Moeris, New York, Christianization of Egypt, Coptic Studies, New Docs, Antinoe Street, Greek East, Hermopolite Nome, Lower Egypt, Middle Egypt, Ottoman Aleppo, Alan Cameron, Egyptian Christianity, Oxyrhynchite Nome, Tell Edfou New!
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Egypt captured the imagination of ancient visitors and readers just as it has of modern. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
praepositus pagi, barley taxes, bouleutic class, former gymnasiarch, billon coinage, census declarations, nome capitals, curial class, liturgical obligations, defensor civitatis, urban landowners, former high priest, tax grain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Upper Egypt, Soknopaiou Nesos, Nag Hammadi, Aurelius Isidoros, Averil Cameron, Great Oasis, Red Sea, Asia Minor, Dioskoros of Aphrodito, Lake Moeris, New York, Christianization of Egypt, Coptic Studies, New Docs, Antinoe Street, Greek East, Hermopolite Nome, Lower Egypt, Middle Egypt, Ottoman Aleppo, Alan Cameron, Egyptian Christianity, Oxyrhynchite Nome, Tell Edfou New!
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- Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry J. Kemp on page 25, and Back Matter
- Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt by Roger S. Bagnall in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Roman Family (Ancient Society and History) by Suzanne Dixon on page 201, and Back Matter
- Scriptiunculae posteriores (German Edition) by Herbert Chayyim Youtie on page 164, and Back Matter
- Papyrus in Classical Antiquity by Naphtali Lewis on page 86, and page 315
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