商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes in Paris. He has published on Greek and Coptic papyri and inscriptions.Marie Legendre, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on early Islamic social and economic history, particularly administration and fiscal practice, non-Muslims under Muslim rule and multilingualism.Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is currently PI of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000).