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Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can only be understood through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction: The Accession of Menes
- 1: The Old Kingdom: Ancient Egypt at mid century
- 2: First Intermediate Period: The Religion of Science and the Science of Religion
- 3: The Middle Kingdom: Orthodox Egypt, 1880-1900
- 4: Second Intermediate Period: Petrie's Prehistory and the Oxyrhynchus papyri
- 5: The New Kingdom: Ancient Egypt and the Cycles of Civilisation after 1900
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
David Gange is Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham.
Summary
Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can only be understood through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.
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[a] splendid cultural history of British Egyptology
