The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

2011-12
 |  History
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

Author: Roger S. Bagnall

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199843695

Category: History

Page: 711

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Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society

2016
 |  History
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society

Author: Paul J. du Plessis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780198728689

Category: History

Page: 753

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Sumario: Front Matter - Part I Introduction - Part II Reading Roman Law - Part III The Constitutional Structure of the Roman State- Part IV Legal Professionals and Legal Culture - Part V Settling Disputes - Part VI Persons before the Law - Part VII Legal Relations - End Matter.

Fragmente

2010
 |  History
Fragmente

Author: Christian Gastgeber

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences

ISBN: STANFORD:36105213118495

Category: History

Page: 264

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English summary: This volume presents four thematic areas related to the problems connected to research on the Middle Ages using primary source material. They are: Methodological access to fragmentary sources, Finding, cataloging and working with fragments, Fragmentary realities: 'Blind spots' in sources, and Fragementary objects, fragmentary spaces, spolia. Two introductory articles that discuss the term fragment provide the necessary methodological basis.German description: Akten des internationalen Symposiums des Zentrums Mittelalterforschung der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 19.-21.3.2009 In vier Themenbereichen wird ein Einblick in die Probleme mittelalterlicher Quellenforschung gegeben; es sind dies Methodische Zugange zu fragmentarischer Quellenuberlieferung, Finden, Katalogisieren, Bearbeiten von Fragmenten, Fragmentarische Realitaten: Blinde Flecken der Quellen, Fragmentarische Objekte, fragmentierte Raume, Spolien. Um der Frage auch den notwendigen methodischen Unterbau zu geben, wird einleitend der Begriffsbestimmung Fragment in zwei Grundsatzbeitragen von Patrick Geary und Helmut Hundsbichler nachgegangen. Christian GASTGEBER ist stv. Direktor des Instituts fur Byzanzforschung der OAW Christine GLASSNER ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Kommission fur Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der OAW Kornelia HOLZNER-TOBISCH ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Instituts fur Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit der OAW Renate SPREITZER ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Instituts fur Mittelalterforschung der OAW

Tombs for the Living

2007
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Tombs for the Living

Author: Elisabeth R. O'Connell

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:C3510659

Category:

Page: 948

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The characterization of Egyptian monasticism as a desert movement arises primarily from the success of certain fourth century literary texts circulated outside of Egypt. Yet recent historical research has demonstrated a whole range of choices for ascetic dwelling in late antique Egypt, where men and women might practice their discipline in households in cities and towns, in abandoned villages, in the outer or inner desert. Archaeological (including papyrological, epigraphical and representational) sources evidence another widely practiced option, which has been surprisingly under-recognized by historians of early Christianity: the reuse of monumental funerary architecture for habitation. In this context, it is crucial to recognize that both Greek oros and Coptic toou can mean not only “mountain” and “desert,” but also “cemetery” and “monastery.” Thus, textual sources can easily mislead historians unaware of the archaeological context of a given “desert” monastery. Using a combination of archaeological sources together with literary texts transmitted through the manuscript tradition, I explore the practical and ideological motivations for monastic occupation of monumental funerary architecture in one geographically circumscribed region--Western Thebes. As the necropolis of ancient Egypt's great southern capital, Western Thebes provides an unparalleled corpus of archaeological material evidencing the establishment of churches, saints' shrines, monasteries and hermitages in adapted pharaonic tombs and mortuary temples. The contents of excavated Greek and Coptic documentary (e.g., legal texts, letters, magical/medical texts) and literary papyri (e.g., saints' Lives) allow multiple points of access to both the physical description and conceptual construction of the ancient Necropolis in Late Antiquity. Texts transmitted through the manuscript tradition record the Lives of saints said to have occupied the region and vividly depict ancient tombs (and their mummified inhabitants). My analysis demonstrates that perceptions might not always be fixed. In texts, the representation of the ancient Necropolis and its ascetic occupants might differ depending on subject, audience, occasion and circumstance. Nevertheless, even in the most “everyday” texts, authors recognized the Necropolis as a place apart from the mundane world; and, I argue, reusing the funerary monuments of the past conferred authority and status upon its Christian residents.

2010

2011-06-15
 |  Reference
2010

Author: De Gruyter

Publisher: de Gruyter

ISBN: 3110230259

Category: Reference

Page: 904

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The Times Index

2010
 |  Times (London, England)
The Times Index

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UCD:31175034177173

Category: Times (London, England)

Page: 1552

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Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

Brill's New Pauly

2006
 |  Civilization, Classical
Brill's New Pauly

Author: Manfred Landfester

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106020321946

Category: Civilization, Classical

Page: 716

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This is volume 4 of Brill's New Pauly, Classical Tradition, which consists of five volumes uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.

Schrift, Text und Bild

2006
 |  Egypt
Schrift, Text und Bild

Author: Herwig Maehler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 3598775962

Category: Egypt

Page: 288

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Die Zeitschrift Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ist das älteste papyrologische Fachorgan der Welt. Sieunterscheidet sich von anderen papyrologischen Zeitschriften hauptsächlich durch ihre Referate (literarische Papyri, christliche Texte, Urkundenreferat, juristisches Referat, koptische Texte und Urkunden, Demotica Selecta sowie Darstellungen und Hilfsmittel). Die Beihefte zu der Zeitschrift vereinen sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände; im Zentrum stehen Neueditionen von Papyrustexten griechischer, lateinischer, koptischer, demotischer oder arabischer Sprache, die neue Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Bereichen des Altertums vermitteln: zu Philologie, Literatur, Philosophie, Religion, Politik und Sozialgeschichte, zu Militär- und Rechtsgeschichte, zu Geographie und Landeskunde, zu Schul- und Gesundheitswesen und zum Alltagsleben; kurzum, zur antiken Kulturgeschichte überhaupt.