Authority and Control in the Countryside

Alain Delattre

ISBN 10: 9004386351 / ISBN 13: 9789004386358

Published by Brill, NL, 2018

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Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control - land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation - and indirect control - monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting - are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period.Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Authority and Control in the Countryside
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004386351
• ISBN 13: 9789004386358
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: xviii, 594 pp.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 3.18H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 3.18 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 944 grams

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Synopsis

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period.

Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.

About the Author

Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has published on Greek and Coptic papyri and inscriptions. Marie Legendre, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on early Islamic social and economic history, particularly administration and fiscal practice, non-Muslims under Muslim rule and multilingualism. Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is currently PI of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000).