Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700

By: Roger S. Bagnall (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 August 2007

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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.

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'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700 is warmly recommended to every student of Late Antiquity.' Scripta Classica Israelica
'As a whole the volume covers an extremely wide range of topics across the entire scholarly spectrum of research into Byzantine Egypt, while each contribution successfully offers lucid and penetrating analyses of specific topics. This book will quickly and deservedly find a wide readership among all those interested in Egypt in the Byzantine world, and will no doubt serve as a helpful spur to future research.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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List of illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The Culture of Byzantine Egypt
Poets and pagans in Byzantine Egypt	p. 21
Higher education in early Byzantine Egypt: Rhetoric, Latin, and the law	p. 47
Philosophy in its social context	p. 67
Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world	p. 83
Early Christian architecture in Egypt and its relationship to the architecture of the Byzantine world	p. 103
Coptic and Byzantine textiles found in Egypt: Corpora, collections, and scholarly perspectives	p. 137
Between tradition and innovation: Egyptian funerary practices in late antiquity	p. 163
Government, Environments, Society, and Economy
Alexandria in the fourth to seventh centuries	p. 187
The other cities in later Roman Egypt	p. 207
Byzantine Egyptian villages	p. 226
The imperial presence: Government and army	p. 244
Byzantine Egypt and imperial law	p. 271
Aristocratic landholding and the economy of Byzantine Egypt	p. 288
Gender and society in Byzantine Egypt	p. 309
Christianity: The Church and Monasticism
The institutional church	p. 331
The cult of saints: A haven of continuity in a changing world?	p. 350
Divine architects: Designing the monastic dwelling place	p. 368
Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt: Continuity and memory	p. 390
Depicting the kingdom of heaven: Paintings and monastic practice in early Byzantine Egypt	p. 408
Epilogue
The Arab conquest of Egypt and the beginning of Muslim rule	p. 437
Index	p. 460
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