Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 135158995
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780197266779
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Villages in the ancient Mediterranean world have been little studied in contrast to cities; in the case of Egypt there is no excuse because of the abundant documentary papyri from village sites. This volume, the first to survey village institutions in Roman to early Arab Egypt, is the outcome of a conference organised at King’s College London in July 2014 by Langellotti, then a British Academy Research Fellow, and Rathbone with the deliberate aim of stimulating study of the topic. The speakers from the UK, France, Germany and Italy were selected and invited for their expertise in particular sites, topics or periods. The contributors revised their papers after the conference, and these versions were reviewed by two external readers; in response to their comments Rathbone and Langellotti revamped the structure of the volume and made substantive editorial interventions in most of the papers. After more revision by their authors the final draft volume was reviewed in detail by a third external reader, whose comments instigated more editorial work in collaboration with the authors. Rathbone has led on the publication: he edited all the eleven papers, making considerable changes to chapters 2 Police, 3 Associations, 4 Elders, 7 Wills and 8 Banks, and translated from German and edited chapter 9 Festivals. He also wrote the substantive Introduction, drawing on his twenty years and more of research into the Fayyum villages, with some input from Langellotti, which places the volume in its historiographical context and provides the first published overview, drawing together the researches and arguments of the papers, of the developments in village institutions in Egypt across the period.
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