Triangular Landscapes
Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2014
- ISBN 9780199688722
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 221x157x33 mm
- Weight 686 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Five figures, five maps, 28 tables, and 14 halftones 0
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Short description:
Using papyri and other sources documenting the Mendesian Nome, a district of the North-Eastern Nile Delta, this volume investigates the complex networks of relationships between Mendesian environments, socio-economic dynamics, and agro-fiscal policies in the Roman period.
MoreLong description:
Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale, it is a rather fast one. How did it happen? How did human action contribute to the phenomenon? Why did it start around the Roman period? And how did it impact on ancient Deltaic communities? This volume reflects on these questions by focusing on a district of the north-eastern Delta called the Mendesian Nome.
The Mendesian Nome is one of the very few Deltaic zones documented by a significant number of papyri. To date, this documentation has never been subject to a comprehensive study. Yet it provides us with a wealth of information on the region's landscape, administrative geography, and agrarian economy. Starting from these papyri and from all available evidence, this volume investigates the complex networks of relationships between Mendesian environments, socio-economic dynamics, and agro-fiscal policies. Ultimately, it poses the question of the 'otherness' of the Nile Delta, within Egypt and, more broadly, the Roman Empire. Section I sets the broader hydrological, documentary, and historical contexts from which the Roman-period Mendesian evidence stem. Section II is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Mendesian landscape, while section III examines the strategies of diversification and the modes of valorization of marginal land attested in the nome. Finally, section IV analyses the socio-environmental crisis that affected the nome in the second half of the second century AD.
This is not only an excellent addition to the OSRE series, but also an important work in the scholarship of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and to ancient economic, enviromental, and social history in general.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Maps
Introduction
I: The Mendesian Nome in Context
Hydrological Context
Evidence
The Pre-Roman Mendesian Nome
II: The Mendesian Landscape under Roman Rule
Topography and Administrative Geography
Land Categories
III: 'Le Beau Risque': Society, the State, and the Land
How Many Baskets for One's Eggs? Agricultural Diversification and Fiscality
In the Heart of the Fringe: The Socio-Economics of Marginal Land
IV: Autopsy of a Region in Crisis
'Ruined, they took flight': Mendesian anachoresis
The Boukoloi Uprising
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
