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ISBN: 0472066129 0472096125 9780472066124 9780472096121 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press,
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Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt introduces the reader to the women in the ancient town of Jeme, a Christian enclave in Egypt that existed from 600 to 800 ce. Using texts documenting the women's activities, the physical remains of their possessions, and the writings of the local religious leaders, T. G. Wilfong traces the lives and careers of individual women and, through them, arrives at an understanding of the reality of women's lives in this place and time.Contrary to the submissive, demure ideals for women proposed by the religious writers of Christian Egypt, the evidence from Jeme points to a more complex, dynamic situation. Women were active in the home, but some also played important and visible parts in the religious and economic life of their community. A bishop's attempts to monitor the behavior of the women in his district, the intricate inheritance dispute between an aunt and her niece, one woman's pious donations of murals to a church, three women's agonized decisions to give up their children to the local monastery, and the transactions of a family of women moneylenders—all these episodes paint a vivid picture of life in a Coptic town.
Jeme (Extinct city) --- Jeme (Ville ancienne) --- Copts --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Egyptians --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Femmes --- Coptes --- Moeurs et coutumes --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Sources. --- Women - Egypt - Jeme (Extinct city) --- Jeme (Extinct city) - Social life and customs --- Copts - Jeme (Extinct city)
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ISBN: 9780472130481 047213048X Year: 2017 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
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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 concerns, yield a wealth of knowledge about social and economic changes happening at both the community and country-wide levels during the early years of Islamic rule in Egypt. Additionally, they offer a fascinating picture of the scribe's role within this world, illuminating both the practical aspects of his work and the social and professional connections with clients for whom he wrote legal documents. Papyrological analysis of Aristophanes' documents, within the context of the textual record of the village, shows a new and divergent scribal practice that reflects broader trends among his contemporaries: Aristophanes was part of a larger, national system of administrative changes, enacted by the country's Arab rulers in order to better control administrative practices and fiscal policies within the country. Yet Aristophanes' dossier shows him not just as an administrator, revealing details about his life, his role in the community, and the elite networks within which he operated. This unique perspective provides new insights into both the micro-history of an individual's experience of eighth-century Theban village life, and its reflection in the macro social, economic, and political trends in Egypt at this time. This book will prove valuable to scholars of late antique studies, papyrology, philology, early Islamic history, social and economic history, and Egyptology.
Scribes --- Copts --- Aristophanes --- Jeme (Extinct city) --- Egypt --- History. --- History --- Copts. --- Koptisch. --- Schreiber. --- Scribes. --- Aristophanes, --- Aristophanes. --- 640-1250. --- Egypt. --- Jême. --- Ägypten. --- Egyptians --- Ethnology --- Copyists --- Antiquities --- Coptic language --- Economic conditions
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