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Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt

T. G. Wilfong

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Front Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction: The Town of Jeme in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE
Chapter 1: Saints, Sinners, and Women of Jeme: Literary Ideals and Documentary Realities
Chapter 2: Elizabeth and an Abigaia or Two: Some Women of Jeme
Chapter 3: Elizabeth and Abigaia in Context: Women’s Lives in Family and Community
Chapter 4: Donors, Monastics, Worshippers: Women’s Lives and Religion
Chapter 5: Koloje the Moneylender and Other Women in the Economy of Jeme
Epilogue: Harriet Martineau at Jeme, 1846
Abbreviations
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Texts Cited
General Index
Plates

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Published: 2002

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

ISBN(s)

9780472096121 (hardcover)
9780472066124 (paperback)