General
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- Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1993.
- Bagnall, Roger S., Copts, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. 1, New York 2001, 302-307.
- Bagnall, Roger S., Roman Occupation, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. 3, New York 2001, 148-156.
- Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt, Late Roman, in: Dictionary of the Middle Ages 10, New York 1988, 453-456.
- Bowman, Alan K., Egypt after the Pharaohs, Oxford 1986.
- Coptic Encyclopedia: Egypt, Roman and Byzantine Rule in; Egypt, Islamization of; Roman Emperors in Egypt
- Jones, A. H. M., The Later Roman Empire 284-602. A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey, 2 voll., Oxford 1964.
- Lewis, Naphtali, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule, Oxford 1983.
- Petry, Carl F. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt Volume One: Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge 1998.
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Administration and Taxation
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- Baek Simonsen, Jørgen, Studies in the Genesis and Early Development of the Caliphal Taxation System with Special Reference to Circumstances in the Arab Peninsula, Egypt and Palestine. Copenhagen 1988.
- Coptic Encyclopedia: Kharaj; Pagarch; Prefect; Provincial Organization of Egypt; Taxation in Roman Egypt,
- Lallemand, Jacqueline, L'administration civile de l'Egypte de l'avènement de Dioclétien à la création du diocèse (284-382). Contribution à l'étude des rapports entre l'Égypte et l'Empire à la fin du IIIe et au IVe siècle. Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, Mémoires t. LVII fasc. 2, Bruxelles 1964.
- Morimoto, Kosei, The Fiscal Administration of Egypt in the Early Islamic Period. Asian Historical Monographs 1, Dohosha 1981.
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Arab Conquest and Early Medieval Egyptian Christianity
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- Anawati, Georges C., The Christian Communities in Egypt in the Middle Ages, in: Michael Gervers and Ramzi Jibran Bikhazi (eds.), Conversion and Continuity. Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries, Toronto 1990, 237-251.
- Butler, A. J., The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, 2nd ed. Oxford 1978.
- Coptic Encyclopedia: Arab Conquest of Egypt; Baqt Treaty; Bashmuric Revolts; Egypt, Islamization of; Fatimid Dynasty; Kharaj; Nubia, Islamization of; Umayyads, Copts under the
- Frantz-Murphy, Gladys, Conversion in Early Islamic Egypt: The Economic Factor, in: Yusuf Ragib (ed.), Documents de l'Islam médiéval: Nouvelles perspectives de recherches, Cairo 1991, 11-17.
- Herrin, Judith, Byzantium Confronted by Islam (from: The Formation of Christendom, Princeton 1987; at The Medieval Sourcebook): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/herrin.html (20-09-05).
- Little, Donald P., Coptic Converts to Islam During the Bahri Mamluk Period, in: Michael Gervers and Ramzi Jibran Bikhazi (eds.), Conversion and Continuity. Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries, Toronto 1990, 263-288.
- Rubenson, Samuel, Translating the Tradition: Some Remarks on the Arabization of the Patristic Heritage in Egypt. in: David Thomas (ed.), Second Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam: "Coptic Arabic Christianity before the Ottomans: text and Context." Birmingham, 19-22 September 1994 = Medieval Encounters 2 (1996) [1-98, 175-227] 4-14.
- Tagher, J., Christians in Muslim Egypt. A Historical Study of the Relations between Copts and Muslims from 640 to 1922. Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 10, Altenberge 1988.
- Wilfong, Terry, The non-Muslim Communities: Christian Communities, in: Carl F. Petry (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt Volume One: Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge 1998, 175-197.
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Chronology
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- Bagnall, Roger S. and Klaas A. Worp, Chronological Systems in Byzantine Egypt, Second Edition, Leiden 2004.
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Cities and Villages
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- Alston, Richard, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt, London/New York 2002.
- Alston, Richard and R. D. Alston, Urbanism and the Urban Community in Roman Egypt, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83 (1997), 199-216.
- Bowman, Alan K., Urbanisation in Roman Egypt, in: E. Fentress (ed.), Romanization and the City. Creation, transformations, and failures. Proceedings of a Conference Held at the American Academy in Rome to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Excavations at Cosa, 14-16 May 1998, Journal of Roman Studies Suppl. 38 (2000), 173-187.
- Bowman, Alan K. and Dominic Rathbone, Cities and Administration in Roman Egypt, in: Journal of Roman Studies 82 (1992), 107-127.
- Coptic Encyclopedia: Alexandria in Late Antiquity; Ashmunayn, Al-; Antinoopolis; Greek Towns in Egypt
- Egberts, Arne, Brian P. Muhs and J. van der Vliet (eds.), Perspectives on Panopolis. An Egyptian Town from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Acts from an International Symposium Held in Leiden on 16, 17 and 18 December 1998. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 31, Leiden-Boston-Köln 2002.
- Haas, Christopher, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict. Ancient Society and History, Baltimore 1997.
- McKenzie, J. Glimpsing Alexandria from Archaeological Evidence, Journal of Roman Archaeology 106 (2003), 35-61.
- Tkaczow, Barbara, Topography of Ancient Alexandria (An Archaeological Map). Travaux du Centre d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences vol 32 (1993), 1996.
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Demography
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- Bagnall, Roger und Bruce W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 23, Cambridge 1994.
- Scheidel, Walter, Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt. Mnemosyne Supplements 228. Leiden 2001.
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Education
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- Biedenkopf-Ziehner, Anneliese, Kontinuität ägyptischer Ausbildung und Bildung in paganer und christlicher Zeit, Göttinger Miszellen 173 (1999), 21-48.
- Cribiore, Raffaella, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. American Studies in Papyrology 36, Atlanta 1996.
- Hasitzka, Monika, Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht, 2 Bde. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung Erzherzog Rainer N.S. XVIII, Wien 1990.
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Greek Papyrology
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- Bagnall, Roger S., Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, London and New York 1995.
- Lewis, Naphtali, Papyrus in Classical Antiquity, Oxford 1974; Papyrus in Classical Antiquity - A Supplement, Bruxelles 1989.
- Montevecchi, Orsolina, La Papirologia, 2nd. revised ed., Milano 1988.
- Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, Kleine Einführung in die Papyruskunde, Darmstadt 1994.
- Turner, Eric, Greek Papyri. An Introduction. 2nd edition Oxford 1980.
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Historical Geography
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- Articles on most individual sites can be found in the Coptic Encyclopedia.
- Timm, Stefan, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit. 6 vols, (= TAVO Beiheft B 41,1-6) Wiesbaden 1984ff. (Alphabetical list of Christian sites in Egypt with indication of sources and bibliography).
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Language and Writing
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- Coptic Encyclopedia: The entire 8th volume is dedicated to the Coptic language.
- Crum, Walter E., Coptic Dictionary, Oxford 1939 (Reprint 1999) .
- Emmel, Stephen, Coptic Language, The Anchor Bible Dictionary 4, New York 1992, 180-188.
- Layton, Bentley, A Coptic Grammar. Porta Linguarum Orientalium N. S. 20, Wiesbaden 2000.
- Loprieno, Antonio, Ancient Egyptian, A linguistic introduction. Cambridge 1995.
- Loprieno, Antonio, Egyptian and Coptic, in: The Cambridge encyclopedia of the world's ancient languages, edited by Roger D. Woodard, Cambridge 2004, 160-217.
- Peust, Carsten, Egyptian Phonology, Göttingen 1999.
- Polotsky, Hans Jacob, The Coptic Conjugation System, in: Orientalia 29 (1960), 392-422 (reprinted in Polotsky, H.J., Collected Papers, Jerusalem 1971).
- Reintges, Chris, Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect). A Learner's Grammar. Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher 15, Köln 2004.
- Ritner, Robert K., The Coptic Alphabet, in: Peter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.), The World's Writing Systems, New York 1996. 287-90, 295-96.
- Shisha-Halevy, Ariel, Coptic Grammatical Chrestomathy. A Course for Academic and Private Study. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 30, Leuven 1988.
- Westendorf, Wolfhart, Koptisches Handwörterbuch, Heidelberg 1965-77.
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Law
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- Coptic Encyclopedia: Law, Coptic.
- Gagos, Traianos, and Peter van Minnen, Settling a Dispute. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt. New Texts from Ancient Cultures 1, Ann Arbor 1994.
- Steinwenter, A., Das Recht der koptischen Urkunden. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaften X.4.2, München 1955.
- Steinwenter, Arthur Studien zu den koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Oberägypten. Studien zur Paläographie und Papyrusforschung XIX, Leipzig 1920.
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Military History
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- Alston, Richard, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History, London and New York 1995.
- Coptic Encyclopedia: Annona; Army, Roman.
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Women
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- Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1993, 181-207.
- Bagnall, Roger S., Women, Law, and Social Realities in Late Antiquity: A Review Article, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995), 65-86.
- Bagnall, Roger S., Church, State and Divorce in Late Roman Egypt in: Florilegium Columbianum. Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, New York 1987, 61-81.
- Beaucamp, Joëlle, Le statut de la femme à Byzance (4e-7e siècle). II. Les pratiques sociales. Travaux et Mémoires du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance Monographies 6, Paris 1992.
- Krawiec, Rebecca, Shenoute & the Women of the White Monastery. Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity, New York 2002.
- Rowlandson, Jane (ed.), Women and Society in Greek & Roman Egypt. A Sourcebook, Cambridge 1998.
- Wilfong, Terry G., Women of Jeme. Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt. New Texts from Ancient Cultures, Ann Arbor 2002.
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