Eline Scheerlinck
Biographic Data
| ID | 6417424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eline Scheerlinck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eline |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheerlinck |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEERLINCK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1910-9722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Asking for a Friend
This article explores strategies for obtaining travel documents in Umayyad Egypt, with a focus on the role of intermediaries in those processes. Examining Arabic, Coptic, and Greek letters requesting travel documents for others, it engages with various levels of the provincial administration, revealing, in each letter, several layers of request and mediation. Moreover, the analysis of the letters and their language sheds light on specific strateg…
Procedures of Protection. Coptic Protection Letters and Village Life
In the villages of late antique and early Islamic Egypt local authorities, such as village officials or monastic leaders, could issue documents, which promised some sort of protection to the receiver. Until now, about 140 of these documents—generally referred to as “protection letters”—and documents related to them have been published. Fairly little attention has been paid to the procedure that led up to the production of a protection letter. The…
Franz Cumont’s Syrian Tour. A Belgian Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire
Franz Cumont’s Syrian Tour. A Belgian Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire. This paper highlights the Western scientific traveller as an intermediary between Orient and Occident around the turn of the nineteenth century by presenting a case study on the Belgian archaeologist and historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947), and the dossier of the journey he undertook in Northern Syria, May 1907. After a discussion of this classicist’s relation…
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Franz Cumont’s Syrian Tour. A Belgian Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire
Franz Cumont’s Syrian Tour. A Belgian Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire. This paper highlights the Western scientific traveller as an intermediary between Orient and Occident around the turn of the nineteenth century by presenting a case study on the Belgian archaeologist and historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947), and the dossier of the journey he undertook in Northern Syria, May 1907. After a discussion of this classicist’s relation…
Procedures of Protection. Coptic Protection Letters and Village Life
In the villages of late antique and early Islamic Egypt local authorities, such as village officials or monastic leaders, could issue documents, which promised some sort of protection to the receiver. Until now, about 140 of these documents—generally referred to as “protection letters”—and documents related to them have been published. Fairly little attention has been paid to the procedure that led up to the production of a protection letter. The…
Asking for a Friend
This article explores strategies for obtaining travel documents in Umayyad Egypt, with a focus on the role of intermediaries in those processes. Examining Arabic, Coptic, and Greek letters requesting travel documents for others, it engages with various levels of the provincial administration, revealing, in each letter, several layers of request and mediation. Moreover, the analysis of the letters and their language sheds light on specific strateg…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (1 work) · Audience measurement (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Classics (1 work)