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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Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language: English
Published:
Leuven ; Bristol, CT :
Peeters,
2022.
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British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan ;
11.
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Call Number: BL2455 .O26
Table of Contents:
- 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.