Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt sources in translation edited by Jane Rowlandson, Roger S. Bagnall, and Dorothy J. Thompson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowlandson, Jane, editor.

Bagnall, Roger S., editor.

Thompson, Dorothy J., 1939- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Egypt--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Egypt--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024

Biography/History:

Jane L. Rowlandson was Reader in Ancient History at King's College London. She was the author and editor of several monumental publications, including Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt (1996) and Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt (1998). This current sourcebook was one of her remaining projects, and it is now dedicated to her memory. Roger S. Bagnall is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and founding Leon Levy Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Dorothy J. Thompson is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary President of the International Association of Papyrologists

Summary:

"Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and is aimed principally at students, instructors and general readers. The documents reveal how people became slaves and ceased to be slaves and how they were traded and exchanged in different periods. They also detail the various kinds of work slaves undertook, whether in the household, in agriculture or in mines and quarries. Introductions explain and contextualise the sources, and particularly address the problems of varying terminology in several different languages. The book shows Egypt's place in the world history of slavery"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Pharaonic Egypt

3. The Late Period

4. Jewish perspectives on slavery in Egypt

5. Ptolemaic Egypt

6. Roman Egypt

7. Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt

ISBN:

9781139506809

1139506803

OCLC:

1424619264

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