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Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators
Anna C. Kelley
Journal:

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 48 / Issue 1 / April 2024

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08 March 2024, pp. 1-21

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April 2024
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Women as a social category have been the subject of numerous recent studies considering their lived experience in the Late Antique and Byzantine Mediterranean. However, their representation in the narrative sources continues to shape modern reconstructions of women's agency within their social and economic contexts, often with unsatisfactory results. Building on the twentieth-century sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's model of social capital, this article will use the documentary papyri from Egypt to suggest a paradigm in which the agency of individual women can be viewed and incorporated into micro-historical narratives of the patriarchal society of Late Antiquity.

8 - The Involvement of Provincial Cities in the Administration of School Teaching
from Part II - Culture and Identity in the Roman Empire
- By Ido Israelowich
Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University, Margalit Finkelberg, Tel-Aviv University, Yuval Shahar, Tel-Aviv University
Book:

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

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14 April 2022

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21 April 2022, pp 135-145
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This chapter examines the involvement of the Roman empire in administrating education in provincial cities during the High Empire, through regulation of exemption from tutelages. It uses the case of Aelius Aristides, who appealed against his own exemption being revoked. The chapter traces the various interests and forces which shaped provincial education both in the civic arena as well as in the imperial one.

8 - The Involvement of Provincial Cities in the Administration of School Teaching
from Part II - Culture and Identity in the Roman Empire
- By Ido Israelowich
Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University, Margalit Finkelberg, Tel-Aviv University, Yuval Shahar, Tel-Aviv University
Book:

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

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04 August 2021

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23 September 2021, pp 135-145
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Summary

This chapter examines the involvement of the Roman empire in administrating education in provincial cities during the High Empire, through regulation of exemption from tutelages. It uses the case of Aelius Aristides, who appealed against his own exemption being revoked. The chapter traces the various interests and forces which shaped provincial education both in the civic arena as well as in the imperial one.