Living the End of Antiquity : : Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt / / Sabine R. Huebner, Eugenio Garosi, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Matthias Müller, Matthias Stern, Stefanie Schmidt.

• HerausgeberIn: Garosi, Eugenio,; Huebner, Sabine R.,; Marthot-Santaniello, Isabelle,; Müller, Matthias,; Schmidt, Stefanie,; Stern, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 84
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th cent., focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Quoted Editions -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Individual Histories From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt -- Local Magnates, but Mobile: Elite Dynamics in Byzantine Provinces -- “…So that the Descendants of the Descendants [of the Muslims] May Profit by It”: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Muslim Army and the Decision not to Divide the Lands of Alexandria -- Situating the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfu at the End of the Seventh Century: The Contribution of the Coptic Documents -- Cross-Cultural Parameters of Scribal Politesse in the Correspondence of Arab-Muslim Officials from Early Islamic Egypt -- An Important Family in Sixth-Century Hermopolis: New Insights from the Basel Papyrus Collection -- The Will of Flavius Phoibammon -- The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the Light of Coptic Letters From Sixth-Century Aphrodito -- A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change -- Petosiris the Scribe -- Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt -- On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study -- Slave and Free at the End of Antiquity -- Women in Need: Debt-Related Requests from Early Medieval Egypt -- Economic Conditions for Merchants and Traders at the Border Between Egypt and Nubia in Early Islamic Times -- Andreas, Son of Petros, and the Monastery of Dayr al-Rūmī: An Usurious Monk? or a Monastic Record Vault? -- Index of names -- Index locorum