Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700 /
Bagnall, Roger S.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I : the culture of Byzantine Egypt -- Poets and pagans in Byzantine Egypt / Alan Cameron -- Higher education in early Byzantine Egypt : rhetoric, Latin, and the law / Raffaella Cribiore -- Philosophy in its social context / Leslie S.B. MacCoull -- Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world / Stephen Emmel -- Early Christian architecture in Egypt and its relationship to the architecture of the Byzantine world / Peter Grossmann -- Coptic and Byzantine textiles found in Egypt : corpora, collections, and scholarly perspectives / Thelma K. Thomas -- Between tradition and innovation : Egyptian funerary practices in late antiquity / Françoise Dunand -- Part II : government, environments, society, and economy -- Alexandria in the fourth to seventh centuryies / Zsolt Kiss -- The other cities in later Roman Egypt / Peter van Minnen -- Byzantine Egyptian villages / James G. Keenan -- The imperial presence : government and army / Bernhard Palme -- Byzantine Egypt and imperial law / Joélle Beaucamp -- Aristocratic landholding and the economy of Byzantine Egypt / Todd M. Hickey -- Gender and society in Byzantine Egypt / T.G. Wilfong -- Part III : Christianity : the church and monasticism -- The institutional church / Ewa Wipszycka -- The cult of saints : a haven of continuity in a changing world? / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Divine architects : designing the monastic dwelling place / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom -- Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt : continuity and memory / James E. Goehring -- Depicting the kingdom of heaven : paintings and monastic practice in early Byzantine Egypt / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Part IV : epilogue -- The Arab conquest of Egypt and the beginning of Muslim rule / Petra M. Sijpesteijn.