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Record Nr.

UNISA996205693903316

Autore

Ruffini Giovanni <1974->

Titolo

Medieval Nubia : a social and economic history / / Giovanni R. Ruffini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-989164-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : ill

Disciplina

962.5022

Soggetti

Land tenure - Nubia - History

Nubia History Sources

Nubia Civilization

Ibrīm (Egypt) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Qasr Ibrim and Christian Nubia -- Qasr Ibrim's land sales -- Mashshouda and Archive 3 -- The historiography of Nubian land tenure -- Nubian land sales as a legal genre -- Nubian land sales as ceremony -- Nubia's legal tradition -- Money, rent, taxes and investment -- Qasr Ibrim's other archives -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : The chronology of Archive 3.

Sommario/riassunto

The first full-length study of the social and economic history of medieval Nubia, this book uses unpublished indigenous Old Nubian documentary sources to reveal a complex society that blended Greco-Roman legal traditions with African festive practices.