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Title

Village institutions in Egypt in the Roman to early Arab periods / edited by Micaela Langellotti and Dominic Rathbone.

Publication

• Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Langellotti, Micaela, 1980-
• Rathbone, Dominic

Description

viii, 193 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume is the first to survey village institutions in Egypt during the first eight centuries AD, from the beginning of Roman rule to the early Arab period. Villages in the ancient Mediterranean world, in contrast to cities, have been little studied and the communal life of the majority rural population is ill understood. The rich evidence of the documentary papyri from Egypt, half of which come from village sites, permits both study of topics in detail andcomparisons across time. This volume covers rural institutions including associations, local officials, banks, record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. It identifies and discusses recurrent issues and structural changes in the power relationships between the central and regionalcity-based authorities and the rural population and their representatives in Egypt, and aims to stimulate comparative study of villages in other areas of the ancient world."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 231

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 231.

Subject

• To 1500
• Villages > Egypt > History > To 1500
• Community leadership > Egypt > History > To 1500
• Community life > Egypt > History > To 1500
• Community life
• Community leadership
• Rural conditions
• Villages
• Egypt > Rural conditions > History > To 1500
• Egypt > History > 30 B.C.-640 A.D
• Egypt

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "The papers collected in this volume are much revised versions of the papers given at a conference on 'Institutions in Villages in Egypt from the Early Roman to the Fatimid Period' held at King's College London on 3-4 July 2014--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Micaela Langellotti and Dominic Rathbone -- Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt : the role of village officials / Roberto Mascellari -- Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt / Mario C..D. Paganini -- Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis / Silvia Strassi -- The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt / Thomas Kruse -- Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt / Micaela Langellotti -- Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt? / Maria Nowak -- Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt / François Lerouxel -- Festivals and ceremonies in the countryside / Andrea Jö -- Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (fourth-eighth centuries) / Lajos Berkes -- The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer / Gesa Schenke -- 'Great Men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period / Arietta Papaconstantinou.

Call Number

JFE 21-3341

ISBN

• 9780197266779
• 0197266770

OCLC

1157693323

Title

Village institutions in Egypt in the Roman to early Arab periods / edited by Micaela Langellotti and Dominic Rathbone.

Publisher

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 231

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 231.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Langellotti, Micaela, 1980- author, editor.

Rathbone, Dominic, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3341