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This is the first survey of village institutions in Egypt during this period and includes associations, local officials, banks record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. The continuing and changing elements in the power relationships between central and regional authorities and the rural population contribute to village studies.
List of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Maps
- 1: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI and D. W. RATHBONE: Introduction
- 2: ROBERTO MASCELLARI: Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt: the role of village officials
- 3: MARIO PAGANINI: Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt
- 4: SILVIA STRASSI: Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis
- 5: THOMAS KRUSE: The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt
- 6: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI: Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt
- 7: MARIA NOWAK: Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt?
- 8: FRANÇOIS LEROUXEL: Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt
- 9: ANDREA JÖRDENS: Festivals and celebrations in the countryside
- 10: LAJOS BERKES: Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries)
- 11: GESA SCHENKE: The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer
- 12: ARIETTA PAPACOSTANTINOU: 'Great Men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period
About the author
Micaela Langellotti is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. She works on the social and economic history of the Roman imperial period (AD I-IV), with a particular focus on Egypt and on Greek papyrology. She is the author of Village Life in Roman Egypt: Tebtunis in the First Century AD (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Dominic Rathbone is Professor of Ancient History at King's College London. He researches the history and economy of Rome and its empire, particularly Roman Egypt. His publications include Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt, The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (1991) and, with R.S. Bagnall, Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: an Archaeological and Historical Guide (2004; 2nd edn 2017)
Summary
This is the first survey of village institutions in Egypt during this period and includes associations, local officials, banks record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. The continuing and changing elements in the power relationships between central and regional authorities and the rural population contribute to village studies.
