We are happy to announce that one of our team members as well as three guests of the Caliphal Finances project will be participating in the new online lecture series “Egyptian Christianities”  organised by Zachary Chitwood (University of Munich) and Claudia Sode (University of Cologne).

This lecture series explores the history, literature and material culture of premodern Egyptian Christianities and as you can see from the programme below, will include a lecture by myself, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, (13th November), as well as by past guests of the project Jenny Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan University, 20th November) and Lajos Berkes (Humboldt University Berlin, 27th November), as well as future guest of the project, Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix Marseille Université, 15th January). We are looking forward to hosting Arietta for two days in Edinburgh at the end of this month.

My lecture, Protecting Tax Evaders, Securing the Revenue: The Paradox of Local Governance in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside,will be addressing the themes and arguments of my PhD thesis on the Egyptian village elites in the 7th and 8th century, and of course taxation will play an important role!

If you would like to attend any of the lectures online, please contact the organisers at  abteilungbzkoeln@gmail.com and they will send you the link!

Banner image: Drawing of a Coptic Saint, 6th–7th century, Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object number 23.3.761. 

Lecture Series: “Egyptian Christianities” / Caliphal Finances - The Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity by escheerl is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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