Living the end of Antiquity : : individual histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt / / Sabine R. Huebner [and five others], editors.

• Superior document: Millennium-Studien = Millennium studies ; Volume 84
• TeilnehmendeR: Huebner, Sabine R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Millennium-Studien ; Volume 84.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) :; illustrations.

This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, 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 wealt...

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Individual Histories From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt
• I: Servants to the rulers, masters of the land : governors, provincial authorities, and great landowners. Local magnates, but mobile : elite dynamics in Byzantine provinces / Matthias Stern
• " ... So that the descendants of the descendants [of the Muslims] may profit by It" : 'Umar ibn al-Khatab, the Muslim army and the decision not to divide the lands of Alexandria / Alon Dar
• Situating the figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfu at the end of the seventh century : the contribution of the Coptic documents / Anne Boud'hors
• Cross-cultural parameters of Scribal Politesse in the correspondence of Arab-Muslim officials from early Islamic Egypt / Eugenio Garosi
• II: Village authorities and leading families at the intersection of state and society. An important family in sixth-century Hermopolis : new insights from the Basel Papyrus collection / Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello
• The will of Flavius Phoibammon / James G. Keenan
• The figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the light of Coptic letters from sixth-century Aphrodito / Loreleï Vanderheyden
• A village scribe on the eve of change / Jennifer Cromwell
• Petosiris the scribe / Lucian Reinfandt
• III: III Patterns of daily life in a time of change. Family archives in pre-transition Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall
• On the edge of the empire at the end of the Late Roman Period : the Khārga Oasis sites as a case study / Nicoletta De Troia
• Slave and free at the end of antiquity / Judith Evans Grubbs
• Women in need : debt-related requests from early medieval Egypt / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• Economic conditions for merchants and traders at the border between Egypt and Nubia in early Islamic times / Stefanie Schmidt
• Andreas, Son of Petros, and the monastery of Dayr al-Rūmī : an Usurious monk? or a monastic record vault? / Matthias Müller.