Clergy in the Apion archive: Texts and contexts

• Authors: Joanna Wegner

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the attestations of clergy in the Oxyrhynchite archive of the Apion estate. In this group of texts, clerics feature in various roles such as administrators, cultivators, and legal specialists. A close reading of these documents within the context of normative sources and testimonies from outside the Apion archive allows us to come closer to an understanding of the clergy as a socially and economically diverse group poised to play intermediary roles in the networks of a great estate. The various aspects of the profiles of clerics recorded in the texts (wealth, education, skills, place of origin) encourage us to envisage the clerical status as an intersectional experience where symbolic-religious and socio-economic factors remained in constant interplay.

Keywords

EN

late antique clergy; Church history; Apion archive; great estates in Egypt; social status of the clergy

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 52
• Pages: 125-152

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Joanna Wegner

• University of Warsaw

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

28408499