Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods

Micaela Langellotti, Lecturer in Ancient History, Newcastle University,D. W. Rathbone, Professor of Ancient History, King's College London

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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1. Introduction, MICAELA LANGELLOTTI and D. W. RATHBONE
2. Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt: the role of village officials, ROBERTO MASCELLARI
3. Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt, MARIO PAGANINI
4. Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis, SILVIA STRASSI
5. The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt, THOMAS KRUSE
6. Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt, MICAELA LANGELLOTTI
7. Village or town: Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt?, MARIA NOWAK
8. Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt, FRAN?OIS LEROUXEL
9. Festivals and celebrations in the countryside, ANDREA J?RDENS
10. Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries), LAJOS BERKES
11. The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer, GESA SCHENKE
12. 'Great Men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period, ARIETTA PAPACOSTANTINOU