Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bagnall, Roger S. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2008
Edición:[1st ed], repr
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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