Recording village life : a Coptic scribe in early Islamic Egypt

Recording Village Life presents a close study of over 140 Coptic texts written between 724-756 CE by a single scribe, Aristophanes son of Johannes, of the village Djeme in western Thebes. These texts, which focus primarily on taxation and property concerns, yield a wealth of knowledge about social a...

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1. Verfasser: Cromwell, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:New texts from ancient cultures
Schlagworte:Scribes Copts HISTORY - Middle East - Egypt HISTORY - General History
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource