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Medieval Nubia - A Social and Economic History (Hardcover)
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Medieval Nubia - A Social and Economic History (Hardcover)
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Among the few surviving archaeological sites from the medieval
Christian kingdom of Nubia-located in present day Sudan-Qasr Ibrim
is unique in a number of ways. It is the only site in Lower Nubia
that remained above water after the completion of the Aswan high
dam. In addition, thanks to the aridity of the climate in the area
the site is marked by extraordinary preservation of organic
material, especially textual material written on papyrus, leather,
and paper. Particularly rich is the textual material from the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, written in Old Nubian, the
region's indigenous language. As a result, Qasr Ibrim is probably
the best documented ancient and medieval site in Africa outside of
Egypt and North Africa. Medieval Nubia will be the first book to
make available this remarkable material, much of which is still
unpublished. The evidence discovered reveals a more complicated
picture of this community than originally thought. Previously,
scholars had thought medieval Nubia had existed in relative
isolation from the rest of the world and had a primitive economy.
Legal documents, accounts, and letters, however, reveal a complex,
monetized economy with exchange rates connected to those of the
wider world. Furthermore, they reveal public festive practices, in
which lavish feasting and food gifts reinforced the social prestige
of the participants. These documents show medieval Nubia to have
been a society combining legal elements inherited from the
Greco-Roman world with indigenous African social practices. In
reconstructing the social and economic life of medieval Nubia based
on the Old Nubian sources from the site, as well as other
previously examined materials, Giovanni R. Ruffini will correct
previous assumptions and produce a new picture of Nubia, one that
connects it to the wider Mediterranean economy and society of its
time.
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