Roger S. (Hrsg.) Bagnall

Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700

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Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path to developing the Coptic Christian culture that we see fully only after the end of Byzantine rule. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Egypt to treat this entire period including the first half-century of Arab rule. Twenty-one renowned specialists present the history, society, economy, culture, religious institutions, art and architecture of the period. Topics covered range fr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-87137-2
EAN: 9780521871372
Produktnummer: 2651903
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 482 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.2 cm 887 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 887

Über den Autor

Roger Bagnall is Professor of Ancient History at New York University and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He is an internationally acknowledged leader in the field of papyrology and his publications include Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994, with Bruce Frier) and Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995). He is also editor of the Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009).