Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt
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- Author: Giovanni Roberto Ruffini, Fairfield University, Connecticut
- Date Published: July 2011
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- isbn: 9780521367967
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Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions between people and groups. This text was the first book-length application of this method to the ancient world, using the abundant documentary evidence from sixth-century Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in Egypt. Professor Ruffini combines a prosopographical survey of both sites with computer analyses of the topographical and social networks in their papyri. He thereby uncovers hierarchical social structures in Oxyrhynchos not present in Aphrodito, and is able for the first time to trace the formation of the famous Apion estate. He can also use quantitative techniques to locate the central players in the Aphrodito social landscape, allowing us to see past the family of Dioskoros to discover the importance of otherwise unknown figures. He argues that the apparent social differences between Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in fact represent different levels of geographic scale, both present within the same social model.
Read more- Was the first book on ancient history to use anthropological and sociological techniques of network analysis
- Was the first full-length study of social structures in Byzantine Egypt
- Relies on documentary evidence from ancient papyri generated by small-town peasants and landholders; this produces a book that zooms in on the daily lives of ordinary people much more closely than other books of late Roman history on the market
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" Ruffini has made an important and provocative addition to modern scholarship on the social history of late antiquity." --BCMR
See more reviews"The book's pioneering use of social-network theory, underpinned by rigorous quantitative analysis, is a welcome contribution to papyrology and the social history of the Byzantine world. The future of the field looks promising, indeed."
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- Date Published: July 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521367967
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The centralized elite of Oxyrhynchos
2. The growth of the Apions
3. Aphrodito and the strong ties of village society
4. Quantifying Aphrodito's social network
Conclusion.
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