Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700
By: edited by Roger S. Bagnall.
Contributors: Bagnall, Roger S.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521871372
Subjects: Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D; Egypt -- Civilization -- 638-1798
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The culture of Byzantine Egypt. Poets and pagans in Byzantine Egypt / Alan Cameron ; Higher education in early Byzantine Egypt / 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 / Thelma Thomas ; Between tradition and innovation / Françoise Dunand; title: pt. 2. Government, environments, society and economy. Alexandria in the fourth-seventh century / Zsolt Kiss ; The other cities in later Roman Egypt / Peter Van Minnen ; Byzantine Egyptian villages / James Keenan ; The imperial presence / Bernhard Palme ; Byzantine Egypt and imperial law / Joélle Beaucamp ; Aristocratic landholding and the economy of Byzantine Egypt / Todd Hickey ; Gender and society in Byzantine Egypt / Terry Wilfong; title: pt. 3. Christianity : the church and monasticism. The institutional church / Ewa Wipszycka ; The cult of saints / Arietta Papaconstantinou; title: Divine architects / Darlene Brooks Hedstrom ; Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt / James Goehring ; Depicting the kingdom of heaven / Elizabeth Bolman; title: pt. 4. Epilogue. The Arab conquest of Egypt and the beginning of Muslim rule / Petra Sijpesteijn.