Joseph Manning

The William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History; Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School
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Fields of interest : 

Ancient History; Hellenistic History, Papyrology, economic and legal history

Joseph Manning is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History and Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School. He specializes in Hellenistic history with particular focus on the legal and economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt. His interests lie in governance, reforms of the state, legal institutions, formation of markets, and the impact of new economic institutions (coinage, banking) on traditional socio-economic patterns in the ancient world. He is also deeply concerned with Papyrology, the interpretation of ancient sources, and bringing to bear the historical social sciences, particularly Economic Sociology and economic and legal theory, to ancient history. His current projects examine climate change, conflict, and economies in premodern Eurasia.