Giovanni Ruffini
Fairfield University, History, Faculty Member
- History, African History, Medieval Nubia, Christian Nubia, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Roman Egypt, and 17 morePapyrology, Roman History, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, Magic, Liturgy, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Late Antique Liturgy, Early Christian Liturgy, Liturgical Calendars, Byzantine Egypt, Social Sciences, Medieval History, Classics, Digital Humanities, Ethiopian Studies, and Coptic Studiesedit
As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary... more
As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so reminiscent of some modern cities) add to the interest. The present volume contains the papers given at a conference at Columbia University in 2002 which attempted to lay some of the foundations for a new history of Alexandria by considering, in particular, its position between the traditions and life of Egypt on the one hand, and on the other the immigrants who came there from Greece and elsewhere in the wake of the founder Alexander of Macedon.
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This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change... more
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally. Amheida was a small administrative center, and the full publication of these brief
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Багнелл Р.С.(р. 1947) - американский историк. На 2010 год - профессор Колумбийского университета. Область научных интересов - поздний Рим, Египет в поздневизантийский и раннеримский периоды; папирология.
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The book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of medieval Nubian literacy. It contains eleven articles by an international group of scholars, representing different areas of language studies (Greek and Latin epigraphy,... more
The book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of medieval Nubian literacy. It contains eleven articles by an international group of scholars, representing different areas of language studies (Greek and Latin epigraphy, Coptology, Old Nubian studies). The articles contain both editions of new textual finds and reconsiderations of well-known sources. The chronology of the texts discussed in the book spans a few hundred years of medieval Nubian history (from the 7th until the 15th century) and their topographical distribution covers a large part of the Middle Nile Valley (from Qasr Ibrim in the north to Banganarti in the south) and beyond (northern Kordofan). The typological variety of the sources, with epitaphs, sepulchral crosses, legal documents, visitors' inscriptions, and dipinti on pottery, provides an insight into the richness of the Christian Nubian civilization.
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Preliminary results from a forthcoming Aphrodito prosopography allow scholars to broaden their understanding of the history and social dynamics of that Byzantine village. Of particular interest are the families who achieved prominence in... more
Preliminary results from a forthcoming Aphrodito prosopography allow scholars to broaden their understanding of the history and social dynamics of that Byzantine village. Of particular interest are the families who achieved prominence in Aphrodito in the late fifth and early sixth centuries, before the rise of Dioskoros and his family. Close attention to their careers will enhance our understanding of Aphrodito as a village in motion, full of competition and social tension.
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Giovanni Ruffini is a contributing author, “Flavius Apion,” “Flavius Dioskoros,” “Bishop Georgios” and “Bishop Timotheos.” Book description: A major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women... more
Giovanni Ruffini is a contributing author, “Flavius Apion,” “Flavius Dioskoros,” “Bishop Georgios” and “Bishop Timotheos.” Book description: A major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life. This resource tells the full story of the African continent through the lives of its people.
The site of Amheida lies a few kilometers south of the renowned Islamic mud-brick village of Qasr, in the northwest part of the Dakhleh Oasis. Qasr dates back at least to the Fatimid period; it was at its peak in the 18th and first half... more
The site of Amheida lies a few kilometers south of the renowned Islamic mud-brick village of Qasr, in the northwest part of the Dakhleh Oasis. Qasr dates back at least to the Fatimid period; it was at its peak in the 18th and first half of the 19th century, and it was the capital ...
... 2003 passim, particularly 70-71 on the relevance of this distribution curve for social networkanalysis. ... A more thorough analysis of name frequency distribution in ... Such a project must await a definitive Aphrodito prosopography;... more
... 2003 passim, particularly 70-71 on the relevance of this distribution curve for social networkanalysis. ... A more thorough analysis of name frequency distribution in ... Such a project must await a definitive Aphrodito prosopography; these and other promised surveys of the ...
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change... more
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally. Amheida was a small administrative center, and the full publication of these brief
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Preliminary results from a forthcoming Aphrodito prosopography allow scholars to broaden their understanding of the history and social dynamics of that Byzantine village. Of particular interest are the families who achieved prominence in... more
Preliminary results from a forthcoming Aphrodito prosopography allow scholars to broaden their understanding of the history and social dynamics of that Byzantine village. Of particular interest are the families who achieved prominence in Aphrodito in the late fifth and early sixth centuries, before the rise of Dioskoros and his family. Close attention to their careers will enhance our understanding of Aphrodito as a village in motion, full of competition and social tension.
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Giovanni Ruffini is a contributing author, “New Approaches to Oxyrhynchite Topography”, pp. 973-988.
The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the... more
The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in the Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intense collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. By bringing together their diverse backgrounds in linguistics, archeology, Bible studies, history, anthropology, and philology, the editors hope to have provided an example of a new model of collective manuscript editing and the results such collaboration can attain. The collection consists of 15 manuscript fragments that were all written in Old Nubian. Among these manuscripts special mention should be made of two parchment leaves from a codex dedicated to works on the Archangel Michael, a lectionary containing fragments from the Gospel of Matthew and th...
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The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the... more
The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in the Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intense collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. By bringing together their diverse backgrounds in linguistics, archeology, Bible studies, history, anthropology, and philology, the editors hope to have provided an example of a new model of collective manuscript editing and the results such collaboration can attain. The collection consists of 15 manuscript fragments that were all written in Old Nubian. Among these manuscripts special mention should be made of two parchment leaves from a codex dedicated to works on the Archangel Michael, a lectionary containing fragments from the Gospel of Matthew and th...
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The article, inspired by the famous papyrological 'Berichtigungsliste', collects various comments and corrections to written sources from Christian Nubia.
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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... more
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 ...
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change... more
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally. Amheida was a small administrative center, and the full publication of these brief
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... Daniel, RW 1998. "Toponomastic Mal in P. Nessana 22 and P. Petra Inv. 10 (Papyrus PetraKhaled & Suha Shoman)." ZPE 122: 195-96. Del Corso, L. 2008. "Le scritture di Dioscoro." In Fournet and... more
... Daniel, RW 1998. "Toponomastic Mal in P. Nessana 22 and P. Petra Inv. 10 (Papyrus PetraKhaled & Suha Shoman)." ZPE 122: 195-96. Del Corso, L. 2008. "Le scritture di Dioscoro." In Fournet and Magdelaine, eds. 89-116. Di Segni, L. 1995. ...
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This book has a double origin. In the first place it arises out of the Prosopography Project established in 2004 in the Faculty of History, Oxford, by its Chairman Dr Christopher Haigh under my direction, with funds from the... more
This book has a double origin. In the first place it arises out of the Prosopography Project established in 2004 in the Faculty of History, Oxford, by its Chairman Dr Christopher Haigh under my direction, with funds from the University's Research and Development Fund. Our aim was to produce materials for the use of graduate students and others interested in prosopography but fairly or completely new to some of the ideas. The project's envisaged 'Guide to Prosopography'changed into the present book when an excellent Short Manual ...
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The site of Amheida lies a few kilometers south of the renowned Islamic mud-brick village of Qasr, in the northwest part of the Dakhleh Oasis. Qasr dates back at least to the Fatimid period; it was at its peak in the 18th and first half... more
The site of Amheida lies a few kilometers south of the renowned Islamic mud-brick village of Qasr, in the northwest part of the Dakhleh Oasis. Qasr dates back at least to the Fatimid period; it was at its peak in the 18th and first half of the 19th century, and it was the capital ...
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This paper proposes a series of new quantitative and theoretical approaches to the “gymnasial” epikrisis (screening) declarations. It argues that the available evidence suggests a gymnasial class of several thousand adult males in... more
This paper proposes a series of new quantitative and theoretical approaches to the “gymnasial” epikrisis (screening) declarations. It argues that the available evidence suggests a gymnasial class of several thousand adult males in Oxyrhynchus. Models of genealogical demography suggest that this class may not have suffered from the endogamous restrictions imposed upon it. The size of the gymnasial class suggests
Giovanni Ruffini, in addition to editing this title, is a contributing author, “Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid,” pp. 241-257." Book description: Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions... more
Giovanni Ruffini, in addition to editing this title, is a contributing author, “Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid,” pp. 241-257." Book description: Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions between people and groups. This 2008 text was the first book-length application of this method to the ancient world, using the abundant documentary evidence from sixth-century Oxyrhynchos and
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As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary... more
As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so reminiscent of some modern cities) add to the interest. The present volume contains the papers