The City In Roman And Byzantine Egypt

Author : Richard Alston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134560523

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The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt by Richard Alston Pdf

For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to understand what the transformations of the city meant for ordinary people, and to uncover the forces that shaped the everyday lives of city dwellers. After Egypt became part of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, Classical and then Christian influences both made their mark on the urban environment. This book examines the impact of these new cultures at every level of Egyptian society. The result is a new and fascinating insight into the creation of a specific urban society in the Roman Empire, as well as a case study for the model of urban development in antiquity.

Author : Richard Alston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134560530

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The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt by Richard Alston Pdf

After Egypt became part of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, Classical and then Christian influences both made their mark on the urban environment. This book examines the impact of these new cultures at every level of Egyptian society.

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521871372

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Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700 by Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

A comprehensive portrayal of Egypt from the fourth to the seventh centuries.

Author : Elie Faure,Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644618172

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Memory of Empires: Ancient Egypt - Ancient Greece - Persian Empire - Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire by Elie Faure,Victoria Charles Pdf

Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die, but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our world of the 21st century. The power of ancient Egypt was followed by the influence of Greece, which brought the Persian East together in the conquests of Alexander the Great. After Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, Rome became the power that ruled part of the world, finally dying out in the fall of the Byzantine Empire on 29 May 1453. The authors take the reader on a journey through time and space and highlight the succession of these civilisations that rubbed shoulders, even fought against each other and led us towards a more enlightened humanity.

Author : Nikolas Bakirtzis,Luca Zavagno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515750

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The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City by Nikolas Bakirtzis,Luca Zavagno Pdf

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transformations of Byzantine urban landscapes. Organized into four sections, this book covers: Theory and Historiography, Geography and Economy, Architecture and the Built Environment, and Daily Life and Material Culture. It includes more specialized accounts that address the centripetal role of Constantinople and its broader influence across the empire. Such new perspectives help to challenge the historiographical balance between ‘margins and metropolis,’ and also to include geographical areas often regarded as peripheral, like the coastal urban centers of the Byzantine Mediterranean as well as cities on islands, such as Crete, Cyprus, and Sicily which have more recently yielded well-excavated and stratigraphically sound urban sites. The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City provides both an overview and detailed study of the Byzantine city to specialist scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike and, therefore, will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine urbanism and society, as well as those studying medieval society in general.

Author : Mattias Brand,Eline Scheerlinck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000735765

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Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri by Mattias Brand,Eline Scheerlinck Pdf

This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in late antique (3rd–12th century) Egyptian papyri, bridging the gap between two academic fields that have been infrequently in full conversation: papyrology and the study of religion. Through eleven in-depth case studies of Christian, Islamic, “pagan,” Jewish, Manichaean, and Hermetic texts and objects, this book offers new interpretations on markers of religious identity in papyrus documents written in Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Using papyri as a window into the lives of ordinary believers, it explores their religious behavior and choices in everyday life. Three valuable perspectives are outlined and explored in these documents: a critical reflection on the concept of identity and the role of religious groups, a situational reading of religious repertoire and symbols, and a focus on speech acts as performative and efficacious utterances. Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri offers a wide scope and comparative approach to this topic, suitable for students and scholars of late antiquity and Egypt, as well as those interested in late antique religion. A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Allan Chester Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89096246996

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Egypt and the Roman Empire by Allan Chester Johnson Pdf

Author : A. H. M. Jones
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592447480

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The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 2nd Edition by A. H. M. Jones Pdf

This book traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century. Arranged in order of annexation, the regions are dealt with individually. The study examines to what extent native institutions were capable of being adapted to the Greek conception of the city, the activities of Hellenistic kings in founding cities, and the spontaneous diffusion of Greek political institutions in the Hellenization of the East. Professor Jones describes the restrictive effect of centralized administrative policy on some dynasties and the growth of cities in their dominions, and various aspects of the relations between cities and central government, including the cities' role in the economic life of the Empire. Other topics discussed include the local responsibilities of cities, administrative duties such as collecting taxes and levying recruits, the internal and political life of the cities, and their economic effect on the surrounding countryside.

Author : James R. Harrison,L. L. Welborn
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628371048

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The First Urban Churches 1 by James R. Harrison,L. L. Welborn Pdf

A fresh look at early urban churches This collection of essays examines the urban context of early Christian churches in the first-century Roman world. A city-by-city investigation of the early churches in the New Testament clarifies the challenges, threats, and opportunities that urban living provided for early Christians. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how scholars assemble an accurate picture of the cities in which the first Christians flourished. Features: Analysis of urban evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Discussion of how to use different types of evidence responsibly Outline of what constitutes proper methodological use for establishing a nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life

Author : Laurent Bricault,Miguel John Versluys,Paul G.P. Meyboom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047411130

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Nile into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World by Laurent Bricault,Miguel John Versluys,Paul G.P. Meyboom Pdf

Egypt in the Roman world --- Studies on the meaning of Aegyptiaca Romana and the understanding of the cults of Isis in their local context.

Author : David Frankfurter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691216782

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Christianizing Egypt by David Frankfurter Pdf

How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.

Author : Ada Nifosi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351596145

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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt by Ada Nifosi Pdf

How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.

Author : Steven Snape
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500772416

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The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt by Steven Snape Pdf

From early towns to booming metropolises, The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt explores every facet of urban life in ancient Egypt with a leading authority in the field as a guide Ancient Egyptian cities and towns have until recently been one of the least-studied and least-published aspects of this great ancient civilization. Now, new research and excavation are transforming our knowledge. This is the first book to bring these latest discoveries to a wide audience and to provide a comprehensive overview of what we know about ancient settlement during the dynastic period. The cities range in date from early urban centers to large metropolises. From houses to palaces to temples, the different parts of Egyptian cities and towns are examined in detail, giving a clear picture of the urban world. The inhabitants, from servants to Pharaoh, are vividly brought to life, placed in the context of the civil administration that organized every detail of their lives. Famous cities with extraordinary buildings and fascinating histories are also examined here through detailed individual treatments, including: Memphis, home of the pyramid–building kings of the Old Kingdom; Thebes, containing the greatest concentration of monumental buildings from the ancient world; and Amarna, intimately associated with the pharaoh Akhenaten. An analysis of information from modern excavations and ancient texts recreates vibrant ancient communities, providing range and depth beyond any other publication on the subject.

Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191534870

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The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt by Christina Riggs Pdf

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt.

Author : Petra A. Sijpesteijn,Lennart Sundelin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004138865

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Papyrology And The History Of Early Islamic Egypt by Petra A. Sijpesteijn,Lennart Sundelin Pdf

This collection includes editions of previously unpublished Greek, Coptic, and Arabic documents, historical and linguistic studies making use of documentary evidence and literary papyri, and an introduction to papyrology and its relevance for the study of early Islamic Egypt.