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.
Dressing up, wearing masks, parading, dancing, celebrating through the night: these are all elements that quickly come to mind when thinking about carnival. Although the specific traditions vary per region, examples like the parades in Rio, Venetian masks or Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans show that carnival celebrations are easily recognizable as such. Masquerades, …
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1985 is a long time ago. Forty years, to be exact. Or rather, the author of this blogpost, a twenty-seven-year-old Dutch PhD Candidate, thinks it is a long time ago. One could say forty years equal the working life of one generation. In the proceedings of a court case dated 339 CE from Egypt (SB …
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How many hours did civil servants work a hundred years ago and did they experience stress? What did the introduction of a weekly day of rest mean for crowd control in the Roman bathhouses? How did sex workers in early modern Japan manage to charge by the hour? And how did merchants schedule their business …
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