Joseph Gilbert Manning

Joseph Gilbert Manning

Joseph Gilbert Manning (born May 1959 ) is an American ancient historian .

Life

He grew up in Western Springs . He attended the Benet Academy. He received his BA from Ohio State University (1981) and his MA (1985) and Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Chicago . Before coming to Yale, Manning taught at Stanford University for 12 years and at Princeton University for two years . From 1995 to 1996 he was a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . He teaches as a professor of history at Yale University .

He is a specialist in the history of the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic Age with a particular focus on the legal and economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Fonts (selection)

• The Hauswaldt papyri. A third century BC family dossier from Edfu. Transcription, translation and commentary . Sommerhausen 1997, ISBN 3-924151-05-9 .
• Land and power in Ptolemaic Egypt. The structure of land tenure . Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-81924-5 .
• The last pharaohs. Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC . Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-15638-5 .
• The open see. The economic life of the ancient mediterranean world from the iron age to the rise of Rome . Princeton 2018, ISBN 978-0-691-15174-8 .

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