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- Title: Recherches Sur L'histoire Juridique, Economique Et Sociale De L'ancienne Egypte (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 196 KB
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vol. 2. By BERNADETTE MENU. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 1998. Pp. viii + 423, illus. LE 170 (paper). This is the second volume of such studies by this author (cf. a similarly titled book, privately published in 1982). Commissioned by the director of the Cairn-based Institut francais d'archrologie orientale (see N. Grimal's preface, p. viii), the present book is also a collection of previously published articles by Menu. As detailed in her introduction, Menu investigates a number of themes that particularly interest her: the constant dialectic between the static as well as dynamic concept of maat; the highly hierarchical, yet fluid, political system set in place in the Early Dynastic period when the principles of kingship were first established; as well as public and private law, where the first is defined as that which involves the state in one way or another and the second as being between individuals. These themes are then reiterated in the articles that follow.