{"product_id":"life-in-an-egyptian-village-giovanni-r-ruffini-9781107105607","title":"Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity: Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest","description":"Most ancient history focuses on the urban elite. Papyrology explores the daily lives of the more typical men and women in antiquity. Aphrodito, a village in sixth-century AD Egypt, is antiquity's best source for micro-level social history. The archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito introduces thousands of people living the normal business of their lives: loans, rent contracts, work agreements, marriage, divorce. In exceptional cases, the papyri show raw conflict: theft, plunder, murder. Throughout, Dioskoros struggles to keep his family in power in Aphrodito, and to keep Aphrodito independent from the local tax collectors. The emerging picture is a different vision of Roman late antiquity than what we see from the view of the urban elites. It is a world of free peasants building networks of trust largely beyond the reach of the state. Aphrodito's eighth-century AD papyri show that this world dies in the early years of Islamic rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giovanni R. Ruffini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107105609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107105607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Giovanni R. Ruffini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991872798975,"sku":"9781107105607","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3044ec40-ac1b-45e5-98d4-1cb7f5cc4b50.jpg?v=1683312727","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-in-an-egyptian-village-giovanni-r-ruffini-9781107105607","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}