Never had the like occurred : Egypt's view of its past / edited by John Tait.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tait, W. J. (William John)

Series:

Encounters with ancient Egypt (London, England)

Encounters with ancient Egypt

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Egypt.

Historiography.

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

Egypt.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 260 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish Publishing, 2003.

Summary:

Did the Egyptians have heirlooms? How much did they know about their past and their ancestors, and what did they do with that information? This collection of twelve essays by leading scholars in Egyptology explores these and many other questions from the earliest periods of Egyptian history to the Coptic population during the Byzantine period. The contributors examine both material and textual information about Egyptian attitudes towards the past, exploring archaic features and references, their sense of time and of identity and history. 260p, b/w figs (Encounters with Ancient Egypt, UCL Press 2003)

Contents:

Introduction : since the time of the gods / John Tait

The ancient Egyptian view of world history / E.P. Uphill

Archaism and modernism in the reliefs of Hesy-Ra / Whitney Davis

Looking back into the future : the Middle Kingdom as a bridge to the past / Dietrich Wildung ; translated by Fiona Handley

Archaism and innovation in art from the New Kingdom to the twenty-sixth Dynasty / Robert Morkot

Literature as a construction of the past in the Middle Kingdom / Ludwig D. Morenz ; translated by Martin Worthington

Representations of the past in New Kingdom literature / Hans W. Fischer-Elfert

Views of the past in Egypt during the first millennium B.C. / Antonio Loprieno

Egypt's views of others / David O'Connor

Foreigners at Memphis? : Petrie's racial types / Sally-Ann Ashton

All in the family? : heirlooms in ancient Egypt / David Jeffreys

The Ptolemaic royal image and the Egyptian tradition / Sally-Ann Ashton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages [225]-247) and index.

ISBN:

1844720071

OCLC:

52231786