Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity
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Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity

Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest

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Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity

Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781108695602
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia antica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Map
  8. Cast of Characters
  9. Chapter 1 Aphrodito in Egypt
  10. Chapter 2 A World of Violence
  11. Chapter 3 A World of Law
  12. Chapter 4 Dioskoros, Caught in Between
  13. Chapter 5 Working in the Fields
  14. Chapter 6 Town Crafts and Trades
  15. Chapter 7 Looking to Heaven
  16. Chapter 8 From Cradle to Grave
  17. Chapter 9 Aphrodito’s Women
  18. Chapter 10 Big Men and Strangers
  19. Chapter 11 Life in the Big City
  20. Chapter 12 Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. General Index
  23. Index Locorum