Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt by Jennifer Cromwell

Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt

New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Jennifer Cromwell

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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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...

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