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Subject(s)

• Byzantine Empire—Civilization—Congresses [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—Civilization—Congresses [Browse]
• Rome—Civilization—Congresses [Browse]

Author

• Huebner, Sabine R., 1976- [Browse]

Series

• Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 84. [More in this series]
• Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; v.84 [More in this series]

Summary note

The international conference Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, which took place in May 2017 at the University of Basel, gathered established and early-career scholars alike to discuss change and continuity from late antique to early Islamic Egypt through individual experiences--delving into political-administrative, economic, religious, and (other) social dynamics to explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world. The conference formed part of the interdisciplinary three-year research project "Change and Continuities from a Christian to a Muslim Society--Egyptian Society and Economy in the 6th to 8th Centuries" directed by Sabine R. Huebner and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2016 to 2018.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2020).

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": Umar ibn al-Khammaab, 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 Khaarga 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-Raumai: An Usurious Monk? or a Monastic Record Vault?
• Index of names
• Index locorum

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ISBN

• 9783110683554 (electronic book)
• 3110683555 (electronic book)

OCLC

1154554408

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