Living the End of Antiquity :  Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt / 
ed. by Sabine R. Huebner, Eugenio Garosi, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Matthias Müller, Matthias Stern, Stefanie Schmidt. 
 - Berlin ;  Boston :   De Gruyter,   [2020]  ©2020 
 - 1 online resource (XIV, 250 p.) 
 - Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies : Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. / Studies in the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E. ,  84  1862-1139 ; .
<br/><br/> Frontmatter --   Contents --   Abbreviations of Quoted Editions --   List of Figures --   List of Contributors --   Introduction: Individual Histories From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt --   I. Servants to the Rulers, Masters of the Land: Governors, Provincial Authorities, and Great Landowners --   Local Magnates, but Mobile: Elite Dynamics in Byzantine Provinces --   "...So that the Descendants of the Descendants [of the Muslims] May Profit by It": ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Muslim Army and the Decision not to Divide the Lands of Alexandria --   Situating the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfu at the End of the Seventh Century: The Contribution of the Coptic Documents --   Cross-Cultural Parameters of Scribal Politesse in the Correspondence of Arab-Muslim Officials from Early Islamic Egypt --   II. Village Authorities and Leading Families at the Intersection of State and Society --   An Important Family in Sixth-Century Hermopolis: New Insights from the Basel Papyrus Collection --   The Will of Flavius Phoibammon --   The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the Light of Coptic Letters From Sixth-Century Aphrodito --   A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change --   Petosiris the Scribe --   III. Patterns of Daily Life in a Time of Change --   Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt --   On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study --   Slave and Free at the End of Antiquity --   Women in Need: Debt-Related Requests from Early Medieval Egypt --   Economic Conditions for Merchants and Traders at the Border Between Egypt and Nubia in Early Islamic Times --   Andreas, Son of Petros, and the Monastery of Dayr al-Rūmī: An Usurious Monk? or a Monastic Record Vault? --   Index of names --   Index locorum 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/> This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world. 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><br/>This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:  
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110683554 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020933708 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Antike /Endzeit.<br/>Islam /Frühzeit.<br/>Ägypten /Byzanz.<br/>HISTORY / Medieval.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Byzantine Egypt, early Islamic world, end of antiquity, social history. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT95.5  / .L58 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>949.5/01