Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

Download or read book Raryrological written by Martin David and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia written by Gojko Barjamovic and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘canonicity’ implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. Scribes and benefactors ‘create’ canon in as much as they teach, analyze, preserve, prom¬ulgate and change ‘canonical’ texts according to prevailing norms. From early on, texts from the written traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were accumulated, codified, and to some extent canonized, as various collections developed mainly in the environment of the temple and the palace. These written traditions represent sets of formal and informal cultures that all speak in their own ways of canonicity, normativity, and other forms of cultural expertise. Some forms of literature were used not only in scholarly contexts, but also in political ones, and they served purposes of identity formation. This volume addresses the interrelations between various forms of ‘canon’ and identity formation in different time periods, genres, regions, and contexts, as well as the application of contemporary conceptions of ‘canon’ to ancient texts.

Download or read book Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt written by J. G. Manning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of land tenure under the Ptolemies explores the relationship between the new Ptolemaic state and the ancient traditions of landholding and tenure. Departing from the traditional emphasis on the Fayyum, it offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state, and thus of the economy as a whole. Drawing on both Greek and demotic papyri, as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions and theories taken from the social sciences, Professor Manning argues that the traditional central state 'despotic' model of the Egyptian economy is insufficient. The result is a subtler picture of the complex relationship between the demands of the new state and the ancient, locally organized social structure of Egypt. By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, the book shows that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions.

Download or read book Hagarism The Making of the Islamic World written by Patricia Crone and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-04-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.

Download or read book Studia papyrologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From al Andalus to Khurasan written by Petra Sijpesteijn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in many areas of pre-modern history, the study of medieval Islamic history has been critically hindered by the lack of available evidence. Unlike many parallel fields, however, the shortage of contemporary documentary evidence for medieval Islam has less to do with the survival of documents and archives as with their accessibility. A rich documentary legacy survives, but because of its inaccessibility and unfamiliarity to all but the most specialised scholars in the field, it has remained sadly underutilised. This volume contributes to the redressing of that problem. It collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World," including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Khurasan. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here.

Download or read book Authority and Control in the Countryside written by Alain Delattre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

Download or read book Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures written by Eike Grossmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection P Giss II written by Marcin Kotyl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the Giessen Papyri (P.Giss. II) includes an edition of two previously unpublished Greek documents. The first one, numbered 127, is a notebook roll from Philadelphia dated to the last years of Vespasian’s reign, containing nine documents concerning overdue rents for land in the ousiac parces; of particular interest is a draft of a complaint regarding peculation addressed to Ammonios, strategos of the Herakleidou meris. The second, numbered 128, is a fiscal codex from the Hermopolite nome, dated to the second half of the fourth century. This papyrus offers direct insight into many taxation issues, including the method of tax assessment based on the concept of kephale, which is still poorly understood; it also provides information regarding key fiscal changes that occurred after the reforms of Diocletian. The editions of these papyri will help scholars to reconstruct specific details of everyday life in Roman and Late Roman Egypt in areas including taxation, monetary systems, land tenure, onomastics, prosopography, administration, and social and economic situations.

Download or read book Introduction to Ancient History written by Hermann Bengtson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind.

Download or read book Thought Culture and Historiography in Christian Egypt 284 641 AD written by Tarek M. Muhammad and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 papers which were presented by specialists from Europe and Egypt at two conferences held at Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2015. Eight of the articles deal with the history of Late Antique Egypt in its manifold aspects, from monasticism and Coptic manuscripts, to the organization of the Arab conquest. The other seven contributions provide new writings from that historical period published here for the first time, or give new readings of texts earlier known as inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, and offer a close-up look at the historical setting outlined in the first part of this book.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists Copenhagen 23 29 August 1992 written by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents over ninety papers in English, French, German and Italian from the Congress held at Copenhagen in 1992.

Download or read book Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines written by Jean S. Wellington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to identify abbreviated titles of journals and standard bibliographic works is a major difficulty facing researchers and librarians in the field of Classical Studies. This revised edition has been greatly expanded, with nearly twice the abbreviations (17,000) and bibliographic entries (12,400) as the first edition. Also, the Greek and Cyrillic abbreviations have increased by seven and four fold respectively. Abbreviations for internet sites are now included, as are those for associations in the broad area of Classical Studies. There are also more entries for Eastern European and regional archaeological publications. This revised volume is divided into two parts. Part One consists of an alphabetical listing of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines. Meanwhile, Part Two is an alphabetically arranged bibliographic descriptions for the works published in classical studies and related disciplines. Special efforts were made to increase the coverage in peripheral areas, making this new edition a useful reference tool for scholars in all subjects of study in the ancient and medieval world.

Download or read book P Erasmianae II written by Ph A. Verdult and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdult, Ph.A. P. Erasmianae II. Parts of the Archive of an Arsinoite Sitologues from the Middle of the second century BC. 1991 P. Erasm. II has two aspects. On the one side it contains a papyrological edition of 36 papyri owned by the Erasmus University (Rotterdam). They all relate to the transportation by ship to Alexandria of taxgrain, 13 of them being loading-orders, the remaining 23 nauklèros-symbola, documents the nauklèroi gave to both the sitologos and the inspector(s) upon taking delivery of and loading the tax-grain. On the other side the juridical relevance of the texts created the opportunity to discuss a number of subjects from a juridical and historical point of view. On the papyrological field P. Erasm. II brought to light a number of interesting data. Compared with the loading-orders and nauklèros-symbola published before, the publication of P. Erasm. II means that the number of such kind of texts is more than doubled. SA 32 (1991), 223 p., 4 pocket maps. Cloth. 21x28 cm. - 84.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050630332

Download or read book Shaping a Muslim State written by Petra Sijpesteijn and published by Oxford Studies in Byzantium. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, Sijpesteijn examines the reasons for the success of the early Arab conquests and the transition from the pre-Islamic Byzantine system to an Arab/Muslim state.

Download or read book 1940 1946 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.