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description: The transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages continue to demand explanation; in the case of Egypt there is the added question of why the Coptic language died out following the Arab conquests. In these studies Dr MacCoull examines papyrological evidence in both Coptic and Greek to explore the Egypt of the 6th-8th centuries its culture religion and society. One group of articles focuses on the figure of the lawyer-poet Dioscorus of Aphrodito; in others she examines the adjustments made by Christian Egyptians as they became a minority under Muslim rule as well as the methodologies of studying this society.
language: English
title: Coptic Perspectives on Late Antiquity
publisher: Routledge