Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. His many books include The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt and Consuls of the Later Roman Empire.
"[This book] represents the most expansive study of Egyptian
society in transition yet produced, both voluminously documented
and self-critical in its use of papyrological evidence. . . . A
tremendous contribution to our understanding of social, economic,
and administrative activity in early Byzantine Egypt--and therefore
to our knowledge of the late Roman Empire as a whole."---David
Frankfurter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This excellent book assesses the society, economy, and culture of
Egypt in the fourth century. . . . Whether dealing with changes in
diet or the legal rights of slaves [Bagnall] paints an
extraordinarily vivid picture of a century that straddles the end
of the Classical world and the beginning of something entirely
new."
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