Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity
Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
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Most ancient history focuses on the urban elite. Papyrology explores the daily lives of the more typical men and women in antiquity. Aphrodito, a village in sixth-century AD Egypt, is antiquity's best source for micro-level social history. The archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito introduces thousands of people living the normal business of their lives: loans, rent contracts, work agreements, marriage, divorce. In exceptional cases, the papyri show raw conflict: theft, plunder, murder. Throughout, Dioskoros struggles to keep his family in power in Aphrodito, and to keep Aphrodito independent from the local tax collectors. The emerging picture is a different vision of Roman late antiquity than what we see from the view of the urban elites. It is a world of free peasants building networks of trust largely beyond the reach of the state. Aphrodito's eighth-century AD papyri show that this world dies in the early years of Islamic rule.
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- Utgivningsdatum2018-10-11
- Mått157 x 235 x 18 mm
- Vikt490 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor242
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781107105607
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