Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
de Jong, Janneke H. M. / Bruning, Jelle / Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
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 sc...