Conference
Change and Continuity in the Abbasid Egyptian Countryside
- Date
- Friday 3 May 2019
- Time
- Location
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University Library
Witte Singel 27
2311 BG Leiden - Room
- Vossius
During this conference the recently published book entitled "Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)" will be launched.
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period.
The editors of the volume, Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre and Petra Sijpesteijn, will deliver a talk during the conference. Other speakers: Alon Dar, Jelle Bruning, Janneke de Jong, Cecilia Palombo and Eline Scheerlinck.
Please register by sending a message to emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl.