Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium

· Archaeopress Egyptology Book 47 · Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
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How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? This book considers this question from a wide variety of angles and across all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times. Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language itself. These different strands are tied together by legal pluralism theory, which argues that a single state can rely on multiple – and at times even contradictory – strategies for upholding what it considers just within the bounds of what is nominally a single jurisdiction. This theoretical approach, while increasingly common in modern postcolonial studies and the history of law, is yet to be deployed in Egyptology. This book therefore aims to fill that gap. The chapters are expanded versions of papers originally presented at the 3rd Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology conference, organised by Christ’s College and held online on 27th–28th August 2020.
How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? This book considers this question from a wide variety of angles and across all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times. Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal ...

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Alexandre Loktionov is Professor of Egyptology at HSE University, Moscow and Budge Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London, a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His main research interests lie in Ancient Egyptian justice, exchange of intellectual culture between Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the history of Egyptology. He holds PhD, MPhil and BA degrees from the University of Cambridge and has also previously worked at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Alexandre Loktionov is Professor of Egyptology at HSE University, Moscow and Budge Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London, a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeologi...

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