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Trained
in Egyptology and Papyrology, Manning’s research focuses on economic and
legal history. Broadly interested in comparative law and historical sociology,
Manning is concerned with the ways in which Egypt is related to larger debates
about the history of the state, the development of social relationships on the
land, and the role of private property in history. He is the author most recently
of
Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure
of Land Tenure (Cambridge 2003). With Ian Morris, he has co-edited The
Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford
in press). He is currently engaged in the editing of Greek and Demotic Egyptian
papyri in the department’s collection, and in a new book project on private
property and private contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.
