The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

Zusatztext A remarkable expansion Informationen zum Autor Christina Riggs is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, having previously worked in museums in Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Author of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (Oxford 2005), Riggs studied at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard Univeristy, before receiving her doctorate from Oxford University. Klappentext This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Zusammenfassung Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space.This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions....

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• Authors: Christina Riggs
• Assisted by: Christina Riggs (Editor), Christina (Lecturer Riggs (Editor), Riggs Christina (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2012
• EAN: 9780199571451
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957145-1
• No. of pages: 750
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology