Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700

1. Introduction Roger S. Bagnall Part I. The Culture of Byzantine Egypt: 2. Poets and pagans in Byzantine Egypt Alan Cameron 3. Higher education in early Byzantine Egypt: rhetoric, Latin, and the law Raffaella Cribiore 4. Philosophy in its social context Leslie S. B. MacCoull 5. Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world Stephen Emmel 6. Early Christian architecture in Egypt and its relationship to the architecture of the Byzantine world Peter Grossmann 7. Coptic and Byzantine textiles found in Egypt: corpora, collections, and scholarly perspectives Thelma Thomas 8. Between tradition and innovation: Egyptian funerary practices in late antiquity Francoise Dunand Part II. Government, Environments, Society and Economy: 9. Alexandria in the fourth-seventh centuries Zsolt Kiss 10. The other cities in later Roman Egypt Peter van Minnen 11. Byzantine Egyptian villages James Keenan 12. The imperial presence: government and army Bernhard Palme 13. Byzantine Egypt and imperial law Joelle Beaucamp 14. Aristocratic landholding and the economy of Byzantine Egypt Todd Hickey 15. Gender and society in Byzantine Egypt Terry Wilfong Part III. Christianity: The Church and Monasticism: 16. The institutional church Ewa Wipszycka 17. The cult of saints: a haven of continuity in a changing world? Arietta Papaconstantinou 18. Divine architects: designing the monastic dwelling place Darlene Brooks Hedstrom 19. Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt: continuity and memory James Goehring 20. Depicting the kingdom of heaven: paintings and monastic practice in late antique Egypt Elizabeth Bolman Part IV. Epilogue: 21. The Arab conquest of Egypt and the beginning of Muslim rule Petra Sijpesteijn.