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Coptic Legal Documents
Leslie S. B. MacCoull
其他書名
Law as Vernacular Text and Experience in Late Antique Egypt
出版ACMRS, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009
主題History / Ancient / EgyptHistory / Middle East / EgyptLaw / GeneralLaw / Legal History
ISBN08669842599780866984256
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WKweQwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This volume contains annotated English translations of fifty selected legal documents originally written in the Coptic language, dating from the mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. They include land transfers, sales, wills, property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. The choice of which language to use in recording their transactions was significant for the documents' framers, and the introduction sets these Coptic texts in their historical contexts of the changing society of Egypt, first under Byzantine rule, then under Islamic rule. Since the originals are in a language not known to most classicists or medievalists, making the documents available in English will enable them to be read, studied, and appreciated by a wider audience. --Book Jacket.