Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi composed his description of Egypt\u27s Fayyum province in the 1240s ... more Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi composed his description of Egypt\u27s Fayyum province in the 1240s A.D. His Ta\u27rikh al-Fayyum starts with nine summary chapters followed by a massive tenth chapter, a geographical gazetteer arranged alphabetically by villages. The text is predominately concerned with the author\u27s present day, leaving no doubt the region\u27s landscape had changed significantly since late antiquity. Almost all the village names were Arabic. The people had been Arabized—and Islamicized: only small Christian pockets remained. The sacred landscape had been correspondingly reconfigured. Additionally, the Fayyum, which had experienced a shrinkage of arable land and a loss of villages in late antiquity, had within more recent memory experienced further shrinkage. Most important, the villages on the Fayyum\u27s fringes, the ones that had been abandoned in late antiquity and provided in the 19th and early 20th centuries an abundance of documentary papyri, were (almost) who...
FIRST MET JOHN OATES in the fall semester 1966 at Yale. I was a second-year graduate student, he ... more FIRST MET JOHN OATES in the fall semester 1966 at Yale. I was a second-year graduate student, he a junior faculty I member just back from a year in England during which his projects included what was to become his famous article "A Rhodian Auction Sale of a Slave Girl" (JEA 55 [1969] 191-210). From the ancient history seminar that he conducted that semester came the ideas that would later be developed in the dissertation I wrote under Bradford Welles' direction. Unless I am mistaken, and through no merit of my own, but sheer good fortune, I own the distinction of being one of John Oates' first students and one of Bradford Welles' last. I was much too green to contribute to the Festschrift in Welles' honor (Am.Stud.Pap. 1 [1966]), but time passing has made me seasoned enough to contribute to this special GRBS issue for John. It also happened that during his year in England, John had read and reviewed Horst Braunert's Die Binnenwanderung: Studien zur Sozi...
Recommended Citation Keenan, JG. "The Aphrodite papyri and village life in Byzantine Egypt&q... more Recommended Citation Keenan, JG. "The Aphrodite papyri and village life in Byzantine Egypt" in Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie copte 26, 1984.
Bulletin of The American Society of Papyrologists, 2003
Keenan, JG. "Deserted villages: from the ancient to the medieval fayyum" in Bulletin of... more Keenan, JG. "Deserted villages: from the ancient to the medieval fayyum" in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40, 2003.
Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi composed his description of Egypt\u27s Fayyum province in the 1240s ... more Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi composed his description of Egypt\u27s Fayyum province in the 1240s A.D. His Ta\u27rikh al-Fayyum starts with nine summary chapters followed by a massive tenth chapter, a geographical gazetteer arranged alphabetically by villages. The text is predominately concerned with the author\u27s present day, leaving no doubt the region\u27s landscape had changed significantly since late antiquity. Almost all the village names were Arabic. The people had been Arabized—and Islamicized: only small Christian pockets remained. The sacred landscape had been correspondingly reconfigured. Additionally, the Fayyum, which had experienced a shrinkage of arable land and a loss of villages in late antiquity, had within more recent memory experienced further shrinkage. Most important, the villages on the Fayyum\u27s fringes, the ones that had been abandoned in late antiquity and provided in the 19th and early 20th centuries an abundance of documentary papyri, were (almost) who...
FIRST MET JOHN OATES in the fall semester 1966 at Yale. I was a second-year graduate student, he ... more FIRST MET JOHN OATES in the fall semester 1966 at Yale. I was a second-year graduate student, he a junior faculty I member just back from a year in England during which his projects included what was to become his famous article "A Rhodian Auction Sale of a Slave Girl" (JEA 55 [1969] 191-210). From the ancient history seminar that he conducted that semester came the ideas that would later be developed in the dissertation I wrote under Bradford Welles' direction. Unless I am mistaken, and through no merit of my own, but sheer good fortune, I own the distinction of being one of John Oates' first students and one of Bradford Welles' last. I was much too green to contribute to the Festschrift in Welles' honor (Am.Stud.Pap. 1 [1966]), but time passing has made me seasoned enough to contribute to this special GRBS issue for John. It also happened that during his year in England, John had read and reviewed Horst Braunert's Die Binnenwanderung: Studien zur Sozi...
Recommended Citation Keenan, JG. "The Aphrodite papyri and village life in Byzantine Egypt&q... more Recommended Citation Keenan, JG. "The Aphrodite papyri and village life in Byzantine Egypt" in Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie copte 26, 1984.
Bulletin of The American Society of Papyrologists, 2003
Keenan, JG. "Deserted villages: from the ancient to the medieval fayyum" in Bulletin of... more Keenan, JG. "Deserted villages: from the ancient to the medieval fayyum" in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 40, 2003.
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