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Medieval Nubia : a social and economic history

The first full-length study of the social and economic history of medieval Nubia, this book uses unpublished indigenous Old Nubian documentary sources to reveal a complex society that blended Greco-Roman legal traditions with African festive practices
Print Book, English, ©2012
Oxford University Press, New York, ©2012
Sources
295 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9780199891634, 019989163X
774867587
Introduction : Qasr Ibrim and Christian Nubia
Qasr Ibrim's land sales
Mashshouda and Archive 3
The historiography of Nubian land tenure
Nubian land sales as a legal genre
Nubian land sales as ceremony
Nubia's legal tradition
Money, rent, taxes and investment
Qasr Ibrim's other archives
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : The chronology of Archive 3