Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langellotti, Micaela.

Contributor:

Rathbone, D. W.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; v.231

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Villages.

Community leadership--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Community leadership.

Community life--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Community life.

Rural conditions.

Egypt--Rural conditions--History--To 1500.

Egypt.

Egypt--History--30 B.C.-640 A.D.

Egypt--Rural conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : British Academy, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume is the first to survey village institutions in Egypt during the first eight centuries AD, from the beginning of Roman rule to the early Arab period. Villages in the ancient Mediterranean world, in contrast to cities, have been little studied and the communal life of the majority rural population is ill understood. The rich evidence of the documentary papyri from Egypt, half of which come from village sites, permits both study of topics in detail andcomparisons across time. This volume covers rural institutions including associations, local officials, banks, record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. It identifies and discusses recurrent issues and structural changes in the power relationships between the central and regionalcity-based authorities and the rural population and their representatives in Egypt, and aims to stimulate comparative study of villages in other areas of the ancient world."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Micaela Langellotti and Dominic Rathbone

Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt : the role of village officials / Roberto Mascellari

Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt / Mario C..D. Paganini

Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis / Silvia Strassi

The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt / Thomas Kruse

Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt / Micaela Langellotti

Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt? / Maria Nowak

Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt / François Lerouxel

Festivals and ceremonies in the countryside / Andrea Jö

Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (fourth-eighth centuries) / Lajos Berkes

The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer / Gesa Schenke

'Great Men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period / Arietta Papaconstantinou.

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ISBN:

1-80596-500-X

1-80596-304-X

0-19-191606-4

OCLC:

1535984808