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Later Roman Egypt: Society, Religion, Economy and Administration

By Roger S. Bagnall

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0860788997, 9780860788997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19449448 bytes)
Series
Variorum Collected Studies
Pages
332\333
Time added
2024-12-04 11:35:55

Description

Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt by Roger Bagnall, whose book 'Egypt in Late Antiquity' has helped to bring this region and this evidence into the mainstream of historical debate. In these studies some of the main themes of his work are visible, in particular attempts to explore the possibilities for quantifying not only questions like the burden of taxation or the distribution of land-ownership, but more tantalizing and controversial matters like the rate at which the population of Egypt was Christianized.

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