Later Roman Egypt: Society, Religion, Economy and Administration

Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University, USA

• Contents: Preface; Society: Slavery and society in late Roman Egypt; Women, law, and social realities in late antiquity: a review article; Missing females in Roman Egypt; Church, state and divorce in late Roman Egypt; Official and private violence in Roman Egypt; The population of Theadelphia in the 4th century; An owner of literary papyri; Religion and Society: Religious conversion and onomastic change in early Byzantine Egypt; Conversion and onomastics: a reply; Combat ou vide: Christianisme et paganisme dans l'Égypte romaine tardive; Charite's Christianity; Economy: Landholding in late Roman Egypt: the distribution of wealth; An Arsinoite metropolitan landowning family of the 4th century; Military officers as landowners in 4th-century Egypt; Price in 'sales on delivery'; The camel, the wagon, and the donkey in later Roman Egypt; Administration and taxation: Agricultural productivity and taxation in later Roman Egypt; P.Oxy. XVI 1905, SB V 7756, and 4th-century taxation; Bullion purchases and landholding in the 4th century; The taxes of Toka; The periodicity and collection of the Chrysargyron; Count Ausonius; Property-holdings of liturgists in 4th-century Karanis; The number and term of the Dekaprotoi; Index.

' Papyrologists and historians will be grateful to the author for having collected in one volume this wide research ...' Chronique d'Egypte