Egypt and empire : the formation of religious identity after Rome /

Across Eurasia and North Africa in the First Millennium AD, empires rose and fell, each adopting a universalizing faith which distinguished it broadly from its neighbours. In Egypt, our sources are particularly rich, owing to the land's arid climate and the unparalleled survival not only of sto...

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مؤلف مشترك: Egypt and empire: Religious identities from Roman and modern times (Colloquium)

مؤلفون آخرون: O'Connell, Elisabeth R. (المحرر)

التنسيق: وقائع المؤتمر كتاب

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2022.

سلاسل: British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 11.

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رقم الطلب: BL2455 .O26

جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction.
  • One God : Egypt and empire in the First Millennium /
  • Elisabeth R. O'Connell.
  • I.
  • EMPIRE AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: DEFINITIONS, SOURCES AND APPROACHES.
  • Egyptian religious identities under Roman imperial rule : critical reflections /
  • Roger S. Bagnall
  • Artefacts, archaeology and the archaeologist : Late Antique Christian material culture and the history of archaeology in Egypt /
  • Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom.
  • II.
  • CALENDAR AND COSMOLOGY.
  • 'We desire to know which is the true religion' : Inter-communal rivalry and the verdict of the Nile in an episode from the History of the patriarchs of Alexandria /
  • John P. Cooper
  • Synchronization and its discords : Calendric reform and imperial politics at the end of the nineteenth century /
  • On Barak.
  • III.
  • TOPOGRAPHY AND COSMOLOGY.
  • What's faith got to do with it? A diachronic perspective on empire, land and religion /
  • Katherine Blouin
  • Beyond empire : Kosmas Indikopleustes, the Church of the East and the Indian trade in the sixth century /
  • Maja Kominko
  • Where did the Christians go? Peasants and tribesmen of the Fayum, AD 1600-1240 /
  • Yossef Rapoport.
  • IV.
  • CUSTOMS AND APPEARANCE.
  • Textiles in burial practice in Roman and Late Antique Egypt : Continuity and change /
  • Cicilia Fluck
  • Fashioning ascetic leadership : The enduring tradition of mantles of authority in portraits of Egyptian monastic fathers /
  • Thelma K. Thomas.
  • V.
  • LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS.
  • Greek and Egyptian : Did linguistic policies exist in Graeco-Roman Egypt? /
  • Sofia Torallas Tovar
  • Arabic : Language of empire and language of Egypt /
  • Arietta Papaconstantinou.
  • VI.
  • MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES.
  • Egypt, empire and Judaism 650 BC-AD 650 /
  • David Nirenberg
  • Visible identities : in search of Egypt's Jews in early Islamic Egypt /
  • Petra Sijpesteijn
  • Rethinking persecutions : P. Ryl. III 469 and the Manichaeans in Egypt /
  • Roberta Mazza.
  • VII.
  • UNIVERSAL AND LOCAL HISTORIES.
  • Severan Christians between the Roman and Arab empires /
  • Phil Booth
  • The Muslim elite of early Islamic Egypt /
  • Hugh Kennedy.