Authority and control in the countryside from antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th century)

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Delattre, Alain (Editor ), Delattre, Alain, editor (editor), Legendre, Marie, editor, Sijpesteijn, Petra, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2018
[2018]
Colección:Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 09.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (594 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004386549
Acceso:Open access