Universität Wien

090154 KU Edition of Papyri from the Vienna Collection (2010S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Donnerstag 17:00-19:00 in der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Zeitl. für Berufstätige geeignet

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Aim of the course is to give an introduction to the methodology and to the practice of the editorial work on this difficult documentation. The participants are expected to prepare the edition of unpublished Vienna papyri from the VIIth century A.D. (mainly administrative letters). The results are intended to be published in a CPR-volume or in articles. Moreover, the students will get a first insight into the documentation of this period and into the historiographical problems posed by the transition under Islamic rule of a part of the Christian late antique world.
Good knowledge of Greek is required, ability to use academic literature in the papyrological languages (English, French, German and Italian) strongly recommended.
First meeting is 11th March 2010

Assessment and permitted materials

Evaluation criteria will be assiduous and active participation and seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Recommended readings:
J. Gascou, L'Égypte byzantine (284-641), chapter XIV in C. Morrisson (ed.), Le monde byzantin. I: L'Empire romain d'Orient, Paris 2004, p. 403-436
A.J. Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt, Oxford 1902
http://ia331330.us.archive.org/2/items/arabconquestofeg029678mbp/arabconquestofeg029678mbp.pdf
2nd ed. 1978: http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/thecopticchurch/arab_conquest_of_egypt.pdf
W. E. Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests, Cambridge 1992
W. E. Kaegi, Egypt on the eve of the Muslim conquest, in C. F. Petry (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. I, Islamic Egypt, 640–1517, Cambridge 1998, p. 38-41.
H. Kennedy, Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641-868, in C. F. Petry (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. I Islamic Egypt 641-1517, Cambridge 1998, p. 67-69
F. Morelli, L'archivio di Senouthios. Lettere e documenti dei primi anni del periodo arabo, Berlin 2010 (forthcoming), introduction p. 1-47.
F. Morelli, 'Amr e Martina: la reggenza di un'imperatrice o l'amministrazione araba d'Egitto, ZPE 173 (2010, forthcoming).

Association in the course directory

AG09+10+11+12+19+19+20+21

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