LEADER 03459nam 22005413 450 001 996639665203316 005 20250117084504.0 010 $a9783111493183 010 $a3111493180 024 7 $a10.1515/9783111493183 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31879454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31879454 035 $a(CKB)37211888900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1485003805 035 $a(DE-B1597)685533 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783111493183 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937211888900041 100 $a20250117d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTaxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside $eThe Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284-642 CE) 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2025. 210 4$d©2025. 215 $a1 online resource (412 pages) 225 1 $aArchiv Für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte Series ;$vv.55 311 08$a9783111435923 311 08$a311143592X 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tPreliminary Notes and Aids for the Reader -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. From Curials to Noblemen -- $tChapter Two. The Mechanics of Extraction -- $tChapter Three. The State, Estates, and Elite Participation in a Rural World -- $tChapter Four. Becoming and Being Pagarch -- $tChapter Five. Careers of a Service Aristocracy -- $tChapter Six. Taxes and Social Conflict in Sixth?Century Aphrodite -- $tConclusion -- $tCatalog. Prosopographical Notes -- $tSources and Bibliography -- $tIndexes 330 $aHow did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas, where most of its subjects lived? The papyri from Egypt provide glimpses of state activity at the local level, how the countryside responded to it, and thus how "empire" looked on the ground. Since a major motivator for state activity at the local level was tax collection, Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside homes in on the pagarchs: key fiscal actors at the intersection between provincial, city, and village institutions from the fourth through the seventh centuries CE. The book contextualizes the pagarchs? dealings, backgrounds, and networks from the imperial sphere to the village level, exploring topics such as tax collection procedures in the villages, central accounting and staffing in the cities, the competition of local aristocrats over the countryside, official careers, and local agency versus imperial policy. The result is an analysis of the social mechanics of the fiscal regime in a region of the imperial periphery. Exploring the abundant and diverse papyrological source material, this book offers a uniquely detailed insight into the dynamic relationship between the Roman Empire and local communities in late antiquity. 410 0$aArchiv Für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte Series 610 $aLate Antiquity. 610 $aRoman Empire. 610 $alocal administration. 610 $apapyrus. 676 $a930 700 $aStern$b Matthias$01783330 712 02$aSchweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996639665203316 996 $aTaxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside$94310802 997 $aUNISA