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Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis
Year: 2008, c2006.
Publisher:  University of Michigan Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Letters
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: This Book and How It Came to Be Written
[Intro]
How This Book Came to Exist
The Organization of the Book
Other Information
Chapter 2: Why Women's Letters?
[Intro]
Whose Voices Are We Hearing?
Which Women?
The Distinctive Value of Letters
Generalizations and Particulars
Chapter 3: About the Corpus of Letters
[Intro]
Changes in Letter Writing from Ptolemaic to Byzantine Times
Greek and Egyptian in the Ptolemaic Period
Formality in Ptolemaic Greek Letters
A Colloquial Style in Roman Times
Reversion to a Formal Style in the Early Byzantine Period
Women’s Letters in Coptic
The Chronological Distribution of the Letters
[Intro]
Some Possible Explanations
Coptic Instead of Greek?
Personal Names: Women as Egyptian
Looking for Parallels
Archives, Excavations, and Plundering
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 4: Late Medieval Letters as Comparative Evidence
[Intro]
Four Wealthy Families
Handwriting
Language
Chapter 5: Writing and Sending Letters
Writing Materials
[Intro]
Papyrus
Other Materials
Availability of Papyrus—Reuse
Letter Writing: Dual Letters
Getting Letters Delivered
[Intro]
Addresses
Chapter 6: Handwriting
[Intro]
Typology
Professional Hands: Epistolary, Documentary, and Literary
Secretarial Hands
Personal Hands
Physical Appearance of a Letter
Final Greetings: Second Hand versus Second Style
A Woman’s Hand
Women Write: The Archives
The Archive of Apollonios
The Archive of Asklepiades
The Archive of Pompeius
The Archive of Kronion: The Dossier of Diogenis
Tasoucharion, Klematia, and Demetria
Women Write: The Isolated Letters
Dating Handwriting
Coptic Letters
Chapter 7: Language
The Greek and Egyptian Languages in Use
Greek and Egyptian in Literate Society
Dictated Versus Composed Versus Autograph: Orality of Letter Prose
[Intro]
A Woman Spins Her Tale
Dictated Letters
A Woman Writes
Assessing Levels of Education: The Use of Rare Words
Reading Our Descriptions of Language
Chapter 8: Economic and Social Situation
[Intro]
The Ptolemaic Letters
Roman Archives
Property
Money
Movable Goods
Offices
After the Fourth Century
Chapter 9: Household Management and Travel
[Intro]
Childbirth and Childrearing
[Intro]
Childbirth
Pregnancy
After the Birth
Nursing
Concerns
Weaving and Other Textile-Related Activity
[Intro]
Textile Production
Other Items
Household Management
[Intro]
Estate Management
Independence in Household Management
Directives to Males Regarding the Household
Advice/Assistance
Food Preparation
Public Business
Women’s Travels and Freedom of Movement
[Intro]
Travel Involving Childbirth
Travel Involving Estates
Family Visits
Chapter 10: Practical Help in Reading the Letters
Names
Kinship Terms
Greeting Formulas
The Proskynema Formula
Money
Dating
Letters
A: Archives and Dossiers
1: Letters from the Zenon Archive
2: Other Ptolemaic Letters
3: The Isidora to Asklepiades Dossier
4: From the Athenodoros Archive
5: The Women of the Family of Pompeius
6: The Tiberianus Archive
7: Women of the Archive of Apollonios the Strategos
8: Letters from the Eastern Desert
9: The Dossier of Eirene
10: The Dossier of Tasoucharion
11: The Dossier of Diogenis
12: The Dossier of Thermouthas
13: Didyme and the Sisters
14: Letters to Clergy and Holy Men
15: The Archive of Papnouthis and Dorotheos
16: Coptic Letters from Kellis
17: Greek Letters of the Byzantine Period
18: Correspondence of Bishop Pisentius
19: Coptic Letters from Jeme
20: Coptic Letters from the Monastery of Epiphanius
21: Christophoria Writes to Count Menas
B: Themes and Topics
1: Family Matters and Health
2: Business Matters
3: Legal Matters
4: Getting and Sending
5: Work: Agriculture
6: Work: Weaving and Clothes Making
7: Work: Other
8: Journeys
9: Literacy and Education
10: Religion
11: Epistolary Types: Urgent
12: Epistolary Types: Just Greetings and Good Wishes
13: Double Letters on a Sheet
14: Coptic Letters
15: Fragmentary Greek Letters
Notes
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Bibliography
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Title: Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 : Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore ; with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis.
Author: Bagnall, Roger S; Cribiore, Raffaella; Ahtaridis, Evie
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Bagnall, Roger S, Cribiore, Raffaella, Ahtaridis, Evie
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008, c2006.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90014
Subject Headings: • Women -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources
• Women -- Egypt -- Correspondence
• Letter writing, Egyptian -- History -- To 1500
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