 | Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation Subjects: Criminal procedure (Egyptian law); Criminal procedure (Roman law); Violent crimes -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Victims of crimes -- Legal status laws etc. -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Violence -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Egypt -- History -- 30; Drawing on over a hundred papyrus petitions, one of the only sources of personal narrative from the Roman world, Ari Z. Bryen investigates how people living in Roman Egypt negotiated their relationships to local communities and the Empire through legal stories. Ari Z. Bryen teaches history at West Virginia University. |
