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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology

 

 

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
Joukowsky_Institute@brown.edu

You may download a copy of the syllabus here:

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Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (9/2) Introduction: Alternative Egyptologies or “I am not an Egyptologist”

Week 2 (9/7, 9/9 and 9/14): Egypt’s other Pasts, Egypt’s other Contexts: Geography and Geo-politics

Week 3 (9/16 and 9/21): Alexandria and the end of the Classical tradition

Week 4 (9/23): Late Antiquity and Byzantine rule: The example of the Fayyum

Week 5 (9/28 and 9/30): The making of Coptic Egypt before Islam

Week 6 (10/5 and 10/7): Fustat: Islam and the urban transformation of Egypt

Week 7 (10/12 and 10/14): Cairo: A Royal City

Week 8 (10/19 and 10/21): Red Sea Ports and the Patterns of Trade

Week 9 (10/26 and 10/28): The world of the Peasant

Week 10 (11/2 and 11/4): Christians, Jews and Muslims

Week 11 (11/9 and 11/11): Material Cultures I: Status and the control of elite resources

Week 12 (11/16 and 11/18): Material Cultures II: The common folk and their goods

Week 13 (11/30 and 12/2): The Mamluk Sultanate

Week 14 (12/7 and 12/9): Heritage and the Egyptian Nation State

Week 15: Reading Period