Lived Time in Late Antique Egypt
Lived Time in Late Antique Egypt is a research project developed by Sofie Remijsen and funded by the VIDI programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The project examines how time was used and experienced in daily life. Its overall aim is to explain how late-antique multicultural communities in Egypt managed to live together, and how the everyday practices of all men and women had a vital role in reshaping late antique society.
Below you find an overview of all developments concerning the project.
by Élodie Mazy I started working at UvA in October on a postdoctoral research project focusing on the commemoration of the dead in late antique Egypt. That project is funded by the Van Moorsel en Rijnierse foundation, which aims at promoting research on Christianity in the Nile Valley from the Byzantine to the Mamluk period. …
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Although the database of the Lived Time project mainly includes documentary texts, literary texts that record dates and regular time-related events are included as well, since they may provide additional information on the experience of time, the timing of activities and how time is expressed. One such text is the Coptic Encomium on Bishop Pesynthios …
Past summer, I had the opportunity to present my ongoing PhD project at the 31st International Congress of Papyrology. Because the main idea of this project was born during my time as a research assistant in the Lived Time project, I only found it fitting to rewrite my paper into a post for the Lived …
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