Unify to conquer or conquer to unify? Reorganization of the pharaonic power, and military elites (1550-1425 bC)

• Grant number: 18/03682-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: December 01, 2018
• End date: November 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Aparecido Rede
• Grantee: Rafael dos Santos Pires
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Our work concerns to analyze the power structures linked to the reorganization of the pharaonic power during the transition phase from the so-called Second Intermediate Period to New Kingdom, more specifically during 1550-1425 BC. This approach intends to make a critical review of the pharaonic figure as the central power of all Egyptian society. We seek to show the elites' roles, mainly the ones involved in the military sphere, during the reunification phase of the Upper and Lower Egypt, and how the warfare ideology was crucial to the maintenance of unify bureaucratic apparatus that was capable of build and consolidate an empire. Thus, we believe to be possible to take away the Ancient Egyptian society from the so-called Asiatic Despotism and insert it in a wider politic landscape, capable of perceive the politic strategies and changes that are present in this society. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PIRES, Rafael dos Santos. Unify to conquer or conquer to unify? : reorganization of the pharaonic power, and military elites (1550-1425 BC). 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.