John G Manning
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 229155 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John G Manning |
| NOMBRES | John G |
| APELLIDO | Manning |
| FIRMA | MANNING J G |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4454-198X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Nile and Climate History, 3000 BCE to 30 BCE
The relationship between Nile flood variability and Egyptian political stability has been studied since Barbara Bell’s pioneering work in the 1970s, yet precise causal mechanisms linking environmental stress to societal crisis have remained elusive due to chronological limitations. This paper presents a methodological framework achieving annual to decadal resolution through volcanic forcing of the East African Monsoon. Large volcanic eruptions di…
The Emergence of Interdisciplinary Environmental History
With the efflorescence of palaeoscientific approaches to the past, historians have been confronted with a wealth of new evidence on both human and natural phenomena, from human disease and migration to landscape change and climate. These new data require a rewriting of our narratives of the past, questioning what constitutes an authoritative historical source and who is entitled to recount history to contemporary societies. Humanities-based histo…
L'émergence d'une histoire environnementale interdisciplinaire
Avec l'efflorescence des approches paléoscientifiques du passé, les historiens ont été confrontés à une multitude de nouveaux indices sur des phénomènes tant humains que naturels, des maladies aux migrations en passant par les transformations du paysage et le climat. Ces données inédites exigent une réécriture des récits portant sur les périodes lointaines, remettant en cause à la fois les fondements de l'autorité des sources historiques traditio…
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
The Open Sea
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the divers…
Seshat
The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics. For example, what evolutionary mechanisms were involved in the transition from the small-scale, uncentralized societies, in which humans lived 10,000 years ago, to the large-scale societies with an extensive division of labor, great dif…
Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest
The study of ancient law has blossomed in recent years. In English alone there have been dozens of studies devoted to classical Greek and Roman law, to the Roman legal codes, and to the legal traditions of the ancient Near East among many other topics. Legal documents written on papyrus began to be published in some abundance by the end of the nineteenth century; but even after substantial publication history, legal papyri have not received due a…
The historical development of the form, content, and administration of legal documents
Introduction This chapter provides an overview of the form, content, and method of state administration of legal instruments from the Ptolemaic to the Byzantine period and beyond. While the basic types of transactions remained fairly consistent (sales, loans, marriage arrangements, and leases), the documents show a wide variety of forms and considerable development, and, in some cases, mutual influence. From the modern perspective there was consi…
Rome's imperial economy
Getting Things Done in the World
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Egypt
This chapter examines the history of, and the important factors that contributed to, state formation in ancient Egypt during the period from around 3500 BCE to the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty in 30 BCE. It explains that there are four major cycles of centralization and three cycles of crisis in Egyptian history, and that the account of both are often exaggerated. The chapter also discusses the three main trends in the understanding of the Egypti…
Syene
Syene is the ancient town at modern Aswan ( see Aswan and hinterlands) (24° 05′ N, 32°54′ E), located on the east bank of the river, and part of a complex regional settlement that included both banks of the Nile and several islands in the river at the first cataract.
Money, ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
The history of the use of money should be carefully distinguished from history of the use of coinage.
Nubia
A region along the Nile river, situated roughly between the first and sixth cataracts of the river.
Thebes (Diospolis Magna), Ptolemaic and Roman periods
A city in Upper Egypt that rose to prominence during the Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BCE ), Thebes became the effective southern capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom, when the temple of “Amun‐Re King of the gods” functioned as a major ritual center for the Egyptian state.
Hydraulic civilization
The concept of “hydraulic civilization” and its related terms “hydraulic bureaucracy,” and “hydraulic society,” were developed in an important monograph, Oriental despotism , by Karl Wittfogel.
Demotic, legal texts
Demotic law refers to the legal tradition in the period ca. 650 BCE ‐second century CE , when the demotic script/language was used in the writing of legal texts. Demotic legal texts form one of the best pre‐Roman legal corpora.
Royal land
In Ptolemaic administrative papyri, gê basilikê , “royal (or crown) land” was a fiscal and administrative category of land characterized by direct control by the state, primarily through leases.
Elephantine, Ptolemaic and Roman
Elephantine was the northernmost island (24°05′ N, 32°53′ E) at the first cataract of the Nile at modern Aswan and the traditional southern frontier of Egypt.
Apollonios, Ptolemaic minister
Apollonios was the dioiketes , the chief financial official of the Ptolemaic state, in the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphos (282–246).
Networks, Hierarchies, and Markets in the Ptolemaic Economy
Three basic forms of economic coordination were present in the ancient world: market, hierarchy, and network. This chapter examines the relationships between social networks, state hierarchies, and the development of markets in Ptolemaic Egypt. It highlights both the role of the state and the role of individuals as economic actors.
Middle Range Theory
A Review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama (Straus & Giroux, 2011)
The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World
The Last Pharaohs
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs , the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of both Hellenistic and Egyptian history. More broadly still, J. G. Manning examines the Ptolemaic dynasty in the c…
Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt
This chapter discusses the use of money in Ptolemaic Egypt in relation to the development of the state. The aim is to summarize some recent work and to set the process of monetization into a broader context of state development. Topics covered include the history of ‘money’ in Egypt, the Ptolemaic economy, coin as ‘code’ on Ptolemaic Egypt, and money and the Ptolemaic state. It argues that the economic power of the state is the crucial element in…
Seshat
The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics. For example, what evolutionary mechanisms were involved in the transition from the small-scale, uncentralized societies, in which humans lived 10,000 years ago, to the large-scale societies with an extensive division of labor, great dif…
L'émergence d'une histoire environnementale interdisciplinaire
Avec l'efflorescence des approches paléoscientifiques du passé, les historiens ont été confrontés à une multitude de nouveaux indices sur des phénomènes tant humains que naturels, des maladies aux migrations en passant par les transformations du paysage et le climat. Ces données inédites exigent une réécriture des récits portant sur les périodes lointaines, remettant en cause à la fois les fondements de l'autorité des sources historiques traditio…
The formation of status hierarchies in leaderless groups
État et irrigation en Égypte antique
Cet article examine la relation entre l'irrigation et l'État égyptien antique. En dépit de la persistance de la théorie de la 'bureaucratie hydraulique' développée par Engels, Marx et Weber, et de ce que l'on appelle 'l'hypothèse hydraulique' de Karl Wittfogel, il n'y a pas de preuve permettant d'établir un lien entre le système d'irrigation et une forme de gouvernement 'despotique' en Égypte antique. L'idéologie du contrôle centralisé doit être …
Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. 4
This fourth volume of the British Museum Demotic Papyri series is a particularly important contribution to Demotic Egyptian studies. Although these texts have long been known (some of the papyri reached the British Museum as early as 1839), this catalogue publishes high quality photographs of these texts and also brings to the attention of a wide audience a significant array of information on Hellenistic Egypt. A brief bibliography is followed by…
Living in a City of the Dead
Chicago Oriental Institute Ostracon 12073 Once Again
An Ancient Egyptian Herbal . Lise Manniche
Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. 4
This fourth volume of the British Museum Demotic Papyri series is a particularly important contribution to Demotic Egyptian studies. Although these texts have long been known (some of the papyri reached the British Museum as early as 1839), this catalogue publishes high quality photographs of these texts and also brings to the attention of a wide audience a significant array of information on Hellenistic Egypt. A brief bibliography is followed by…
A Ptolemaic Inscription from Bir 'Iayyan
Transcription, traduction anglaise et commentaire d'une inscription gravee sur une stele de gres, de la periode ptolemaique, qui constituent une sorte de borne marquant une distance depuis le Nil, installee par le toparche Rhodon, fils de Lysimaque. Ce titre de toparche amene l'auteur a s'interroger sur l'organisation de la Haute Egypte au IIIe s. av. J.-C. et sur les pratiques administratives des Ptolemees
L'égyptologue genevois Edouard Naville
Village Voices
Alexander to Actium
The formation of status hierarchies in leaderless groups
État et irrigation en Égypte antique
Cet article examine la relation entre l'irrigation et l'État égyptien antique. En dépit de la persistance de la théorie de la 'bureaucratie hydraulique' développée par Engels, Marx et Weber, et de ce que l'on appelle 'l'hypothèse hydraulique' de Karl Wittfogel, il n'y a pas de preuve permettant d'établir un lien entre le système d'irrigation et une forme de gouvernement 'despotique' en Égypte antique. L'idéologie du contrôle centralisé doit être …
Egypt
Palaeography and Bilingualism
Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt
This history of land tenure under the Ptolemies explores the relationship between the new Ptolemaic state and the ancient traditions of landholding and tenure. Departing from the traditional emphasis on the Fayyum, it offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state, and thus of the economy as a whole. Drawing on both Greek and demotic papyri, as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions and theories taken from the socia…
Property Rights and Contracting in Ptolemaic Egypt
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Law in Ancient Egypt
Journal Article Law in Ancient Egypt Get access Versteeg Russ, Law in Ancient Egypt. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. xiii, 241 pp. $27.50. J.G. Manning J.G. Manning Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 91–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/3692424 Published: 01 January 2004
Coinage as 'Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to La…
The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt
Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt
This chapter discusses the use of money in Ptolemaic Egypt in relation to the development of the state. The aim is to summarize some recent work and to set the process of monetization into a broader context of state development. Topics covered include the history of ‘money’ in Egypt, the Ptolemaic economy, coin as ‘code’ on Ptolemaic Egypt, and money and the Ptolemaic state. It argues that the economic power of the state is the crucial element in…
The Last Pharaohs
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs , the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of both Hellenistic and Egyptian history. More broadly still, J. G. Manning examines the Ptolemaic dynasty in the c…
The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World
Networks, Hierarchies, and Markets in the Ptolemaic Economy
Three basic forms of economic coordination were present in the ancient world: market, hierarchy, and network. This chapter examines the relationships between social networks, state hierarchies, and the development of markets in Ptolemaic Egypt. It highlights both the role of the state and the role of individuals as economic actors.
Middle Range Theory
A Review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama (Straus & Giroux, 2011)
Syene
Syene is the ancient town at modern Aswan ( see Aswan and hinterlands) (24° 05′ N, 32°54′ E), located on the east bank of the river, and part of a complex regional settlement that included both banks of the Nile and several islands in the river at the first cataract.
Money, ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
The history of the use of money should be carefully distinguished from history of the use of coinage.
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