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The Fiscal Rescript of 'Umar II
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Merovingian Gaul and the Frankish conquests
TL;DR: The importance of the Bishop Gregory's extensive writings in the discussions of the formation of Frankish kingdoms, the working of kingship, the roles of aristocrats and bishops, and the limits of Merovingian rule is discussed in this article.
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The Mediterranean economy
TL;DR: The annona system may have tied shippers into the regular transport of Egyptian grain to the Byzantine capital, but not so tightly as to preclude them from the simultaneous pursuit of private profit as discussed by the authors.
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The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa
TL;DR: The Egyptian papyri form an invaluable record; they also demonstrate that the written tradition, when it made its appearance in Egypt from the middle of the eighth century onwards, was indebted to an archive going back to the establishment of a regular administration under Arab control as discussed by the authors.
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Les cadis d'Iraq et l'État Abbasside (132/750-334/945)
TL;DR: A livre retrace l'evolution de la judicature and de sa place au sein de l'Etat abbasside, en restituant les dimensions spatiales, temporelles et sociales of l'administration judiciaire, ainsi que the dynamique des relations entre les cadis d'Iraq and le califat.
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Ostrogothic Italy and the Lombard Invasions
TL;DR: The situation of Italy during the period now often called “late antiquity’ was not always a happy one as mentioned in this paper, the economy was in transition: the number of occupied rural sites began to fall in the third or even the second century, agri deserti were becoming a common feature of the landscape, and towns were losing population.