Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Egypt and the political economy of empire
- 2 The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts
- 3 Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri
- 4 Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite
- 5 The Apiones and their analogues
- 6 On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito
- 7 Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt
- 8 The historiography of the great estate
- 9 The great estate and the imperial authorities
- 10 The rise of the great estate
- 11 Economy and society in the age of Justinian
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Egypt and the political economy of empire
- 2 The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts
- 3 Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri
- 4 Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite
- 5 The Apiones and their analogues
- 6 On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito
- 7 Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt
- 8 The historiography of the great estate
- 9 The great estate and the imperial authorities
- 10 The rise of the great estate
- 11 Economy and society in the age of Justinian
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006