The mind of Egypt : history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs

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Title:

Author:

Assmann, Jan.

ISBN:

9780674012110

Personal Author:

Assmann, Jan.

Uniform Title:

Ägypten. English

Publication Information:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

ix, 513 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: The Meaningful Form of History -- Pt. 1. The Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom -- Pt. 2. The First Intermediate Period -- Pt. 3. The Middle Kingdom -- Pt. 4. The New Kingdom -- Pt. 5. Theocracy, Polyarchy, Archaism -- Pt. 6. Egypt under the Persians and Greeks -- Conclusion: Egypt as Trace, Message, and Memory.

Abstract:

"The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideas, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, the renowed historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Historiography -- Egypt.

Geographic Term:

Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D.

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The Mind of Egypt presents an account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic and archaeological sources, Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection.