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Roger Bagnall
New York University, USA
Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt
Lajos Berkes
University of Heidelberg, Germany
The Notary Paulos and the Last Greek Legal Documents from Islamic Egypt
Anne Boud’hors
Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (Paris), France
Completing the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfou at the End of the 7th Century: the Contribution of the Coptic Documents
Jennifer Cromwell
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change
Alon Dar
Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheva), Israel
The Eye of the Viceroy: Change and Continuity in the Conquest of Egypt from the Perspective of ʿAmr b. al- ʿĀṣ
Alain Delattre
École pratique des hautes études (Paris), France / Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Monks and Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period: Insights from Documentary Sources
Judith Evans Grubbs
Emory University (Atlanta), USA
Slave and Free in Egypt at the End of Antiquity
Luise M. Frenkel
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Egyptian Female Coenobitic Monasticism During the Early Arab Conquest: Maximus the Confessor on Alexandrian Nuns in Exile
Andreas Kaplony
Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich), Germany
Kitābī hāḏā ‘This my writ’: the Official Speaking as an Individual in Arabic Documents up to 800 – and Beyond
James Keenan
Loyola University (Chicago), USA
The Will of Flavius Phoibammon
Roberta Mazza
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Portrait of a Landlord: Flavius Strategius II and the Justinian Turning Point
Maya Müller
University of Basel, Switzerland
A Coptic Citizen Orders a Joseph Tunic in Early Islamic Egypt (Cuff Trimming Museum der Kulturen Basel III 17088)
Arietta Papaconstantinou
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Women of Substance: Case Studies from Different Walks of Life
David Powers
Cornell University (Ithaca), USA
The Abolition of Adoption in Islam
Lucian Reinfandt
Austrian National Library (Vienna), Austria
Petosiris the Scribe
Nicoletta de Troia
University of Rome (Tor Vergata), Italy
Living on the Edge of the Empire at the End of Late-Roman Period. The Kharga Oasis Sites as a Case Study.
Loreleï Vanderheyden
École pratique des hautes études (Paris), France
The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the Light of Coptic Letters from Aphrodito (6th c. CE)
Naïm Vanthieghem
Université libre de Bruxelles
Monks and Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period: Insights from Documentary Sources