Notes on Contributors
Preface
Maps
1: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI and D. W. RATHBONE: Introduction
2: ROBERTO MASCELLARI: Police procedures and petitions in Roman
Egypt: the role of village officials
3: MARIO PAGANINI: Private associations and village life in early
Roman Egypt
4: SILVIA STRASSI: Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the
village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis
5: THOMAS KRUSE: The association of state farmers and its role in
village administration in Roman Egypt
6: MICAELA LANGELLOTTI: Record-offices in villages in Roman
Egypt
7: MARIA NOWAK: Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in
Roman Egypt?
8: FRANÇOIS LEROUXEL: Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt
9: ANDREA JÖRDENS: Festivals and celebrations in the
countryside
10: LAJOS BERKES: Fiscal institution or local community? The
village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries)
11: GESA SCHENKE: The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and
employer
12: ARIETTA PAPACOSTANTINOU: 'Great Men', churchmen, and the
others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period
Micaela Langellotti is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle
University. She works on the social and economic history of the
Roman imperial period (AD I-IV), with a particular focus on Egypt
and on Greek papyrology. She is the author of Village Life in Roman
Egypt: Tebtunis in the First Century AD (Oxford University Press,
2020). Dominic Rathbone is Professor of Ancient History at King's
College London. He researches the history and economy of Rome
and
its empire, particularly Roman Egypt. His publications include
Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt,
The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (1991) and, with R.S.
Bagnall,
Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: an Archaeological and Historical
Guide (2004; 2nd edn 2017)
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