On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations of Quoted Editions VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Contributors XI
6. Introduction: Individual Histories From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt 1
7. I. Servants to the Rulers, Masters of the Land: Governors, Provincial Authorities, and Great Landowners
8. Local Magnates, but Mobile: Elite Dynamics in Byzantine Provinces 33
9. “…So that the Descendants of the Descendants [of the Muslims] May Profit by It”: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Muslim Army and the Decision not to Divide the Lands of Alexandria 49
10. Situating the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfu at the End of the Seventh Century: The Contribution of the Coptic Documents 63
11. Cross-Cultural Parameters of Scribal Politesse in the Correspondence of Arab-Muslim Officials from Early Islamic Egypt 73
12. II. Village Authorities and Leading Families at the Intersection of State and Society
13. An Important Family in Sixth-Century Hermopolis: New Insights from the Basel Papyrus Collection 97
14. The Will of Flavius Phoibammon 109
15. The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the Light of Coptic Letters From Sixth-Century Aphrodito 119
16. A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change 129
17. Petosiris the Scribe 141
18. III. Patterns of Daily Life in a Time of Change
19. Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt 155
20. On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study 163
21. Slave and Free at the End of Antiquity 181
22. Women in Need: Debt-Related Requests from Early Medieval Egypt 195
23. Economic Conditions for Merchants and Traders at the Border Between Egypt and Nubia in Early Islamic Times 207
24. Andreas, Son of Petros, and the Monastery of Dayr al-Rūmī: An Usurious Monk? or a Monastic Record Vault? 223
25. Index of names 237
26. Index locorum 243