Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
“Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World” by Jelle Bruning, published by Cambridge University Press on December 15, 2022, is a comprehensive exploration of Egypt’s historical significance from 500 to 1000 CE. This new edition, comprising 450 pages, delves into Egypt’s integration within the Byzantine, Persian, and Islamic empires, highlighting the various events and developments that shaped its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean.
Readers will find detailed analyses of Egypt’s connections with imperial and scholarly centers, its role in cross-regional trade networks, and its contributions to Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultural developments. The book emphasizes the intricate mechanisms and structures that facilitated Egypt’s political, economic, and cultural interactions with the surrounding world, providing a thorough understanding of its literary and material production during this transformative period.
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During the period 500-1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt’s position in the Mediterranean during this period. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the individual chapters detail its connections with imperial and scholarly centres, its role in cross-regional trade networks, and its participation in Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultural developments, including their impact on its own literary and material production. With unparalleled detail, the book tracks the mechanisms and structures through which Egypt connected politically, economically and culturally to the world surrounding it.
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