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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cromwell, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A scribe in his time and place
  • Building Aristophanes' dossier
  • Putting pen on papyrus: scribal practices and processes
  • Recording taxes
  • Recording private lives
  • Aristophanes' personal and professional lives.