Leslie S.B. MacCoull
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
264
1993
The transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages continue to demand explanation in the case of Egypt there is the added question of why the Coptic language died out following the Arab conquests. In these studies Dr MacCoull draws on the extensive papyrological evidence in both Coptic and Greek to explore the Egypt of the 6th-8th centuries its culture religion and society. One group of articles focuses on the figure of the lawyer-poet Dioscorus of Aphrodito in others she examines the adjustments made by Christian Egyptians as they became a minority under Muslim rule as well as the methodologies of studying this society.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
264
1993
The transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages continue to demand explanation in the case of Egypt there is the added question of why the Coptic language died out following the Arab conquests. In these studies Dr MacCoull draws on the extensive papyrological evidence in both Coptic and Greek to explore the Egypt of the 6th-8th centuries its culture religion and society. One group of articles focuses on the figure of the lawyer-poet Dioscorus of Aphrodito in others she examines the adjustments made by Christian Egyptians as they became a minority under Muslim rule as well as the methodologies of studying this society.