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Alexandria in late antiquity : topography and social conflict
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ISBN: 080185377X 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University press,

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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologiansamong them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in 'Alexandria in Late Antiquity', Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs--Jews, pagans, and Christians--he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed--a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration--a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.


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Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk offficials in late medieval Alexandria
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ISSN: 09285520 ISBN: 9789004221994 9789004222007 9004221999 9786613470706 1283470705 9004222006 9781283470704 6613470708 Year: 2012 Volume: 93 Publisher: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill,

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Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts.

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History of Italy --- anno 1400-1499 --- Venice --- Alexandria --- Italians --- Mamelukes --- Merchants --- Consuls --- Social conflict --- History --- Dolfin, Biagio, --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Venice (Italy) --- Social conditions --- Commerce --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Handel. --- Konflikt. --- Alexandria. --- Venedig. --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Commerce - History. --- Alexandria (Egypt) -- Commerce -- History. --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Social conditions. --- Alexandria (Egypt) -- Social conditions. --- Consuls - Egypt - Alexandria. --- Consuls -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography. --- Dolfin, Biagio. --- Dolfin, Biagio, d. 1420. --- Italians - Egypt - Alexandria. --- Italians -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography. --- Italians - Egypt - Alexandria - History - To 1500. --- Italians -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 1500. --- Mamelukes - History - To 1500. --- Mamelukes -- History -- To 1500. --- Merchants - Egypt - Alexandria. --- Merchants -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography. --- Social conflict - Egypt - Alexandria - History - To 1500. --- Social conflict -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 1500. --- Venice (Italy) - Commerce - History. --- Venice (Italy) -- Commerce -- History. --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Mamluks --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venetsii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Diplomats --- Businesspeople --- Ethnology --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- E-books --- HISTORY / Europe / Italy. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Exports & Imports. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Marketing. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs. --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Italians - Egypt - Alexandria - History - To 1500 --- Mamelukes - History - To 1500 --- Italians - Egypt - Alexandria - Biography --- Merchants - Egypt - Alexandria - Biography --- Consuls - Egypt - Alexandria - Biography --- Social conflict - Egypt - Alexandria - History - To 1500 --- Dolfin, Biagio, - d. 1420 --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Social conditions --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Commerce - History --- Venice (Italy) - Commerce - History

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