Topics/Themes:
• Class and Community
• Water and land management
• Rural-Urban dynamics
• Textual and Archaeological evidence for social history
• Case studies: Karanis and Tebtunis
Readings:
• Bagnall, R. S. (1993). Egypt in late antiquity. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press. (Chs. 3, 4 and 9)
• Keenan, James. (2007) Byzantine Egyptian Villages. In Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300-700. Ed. R. Bagnall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
The Fayyum.pdf