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Lesson 10.6: Architecture

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

S. Alexiou, “Proanaktorikes akropoleis tes Kretes,” Pepragmena tou Δ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens1978) 9-22. 

S. Alexiou, “Teiche kai akropoleis ste minoïke Krete [O mythos tes minoïkes eirenes],” Kretologia 8(1979) 41-56.

A. Allegrette and M. Schmid, “Rapport sur les travaux effectués à la Crypte Hypostyle de Malia en 1996,” BCH 121(1998) 790-792.

T. Alusik, Defensive Architecture of Prehistoric Crete [BAR-IS 1637] (Oxford 2007).

T. Alusik, “Middle Helladic and Middle Minoan Defensive Architecture: A Comparison,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 885-889.

T. Alusik, “Fortifications of Prehistoric Crete: The Current State of Research,” in R. Frederiksen, S. Müth, P. I. Schneider, and M. Schnelle (eds.), Focus on Fortifications: New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 18] (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 53-65.

E. Apostolaki, “Whom the House Concerned: Land Ownership and Lines of Descent in Prehistoric Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 97-120.

G. Baldacci, “Banchine protopalaziali a Festòs. Il caso delle strutture con riempimento di vasi,” in F. Carinci, N. Cucuzza, P. Militello, and O. Palio (eds.), KRETES MINOIDOS: Tradizione e identità minoica tra produzione artigianale, pratiche cerimoniali e memoria del passato. Studi offerti a Vincenzo La Rosa per il suo 70o compleanno (Padova 2012) 313-328.

A. Bevan and E. Bloxam, “Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean,” in E. Kiriatzi and C. Knappett (eds.), Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (Cambridge 2016) 68-93.

I. Bradfer-Burdet and M. Pomadère, “Δβ at Mallia: Two Houses or One Large Complex?,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 99-108.

K. Branigan, “The Early Keep, Knossos: A Reappraisal,” BSA 87(1992) 153-163.

G. Cadogan, Palaces of Minoan Crete (London 1976) 29-36.

G. Cadogan, “Water Worries and Water Works in Bronze Age Southern Crete,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique [Aegaeum 37] (Liège 2014) 73-78.

I. Caloi, “Middle Minoan IB Houses at Phaistos: Function and Relationship to the Community Palace,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 71-80.

P. Carinci, “Per una diversa interpretazione delle kulure nei cortili dei palazzi minoici,” Creta Antica 2(2001) 43-62.

P. Carinci, “Per una rilettura ‘funzionale’ dell’ala sud-occidentale del palazzo di Festòs: il caso dei vani IL-XXVII/XXVIII,” Creta Antica 12(2011) 17-125.

S. Chryssoulaki, “Minoan Roads and Guard Houses - War Regained,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 75-85.

M. Devolder, “L’assise de nivellement en calcaire de la façade Ouest protopalatiale du palais de Malia,” BCH 147:2(2017) 447-484.

J. Driessen, “IIB or not IIB? On the Beginnings of Minoan Monument Building,” in J. Bretschneider, K. Van Lerberghe, and J. Driessen (eds.), Power and Architecture in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean (Leuven 2007) 73-92.

L. Girella, “Bridging the Gap: The Function of Houses and Residential Neighborhoods in Middle Minoan III Phaistos,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 81-97.

L. Godart, “Nuovi ritrovamenti nell'eparchia di Amari. Ricerche greco-napoletane a Creta,” Rivista di Filologia e d’Istruzione Classica 111(1983) 257-264.

L. Goodison, “Thoughts about Light and Water at the Oval House of Chamaizi,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 101-120.

M. Hue and O. Pelon, “La salle à piliers du palais de Malia et ses antécédents,” BCH 116(1992) 1-36.

R. W. Hutchinson, “Prehistoric Town Planning in Crete,” Town Planning Review 21(1950) 211-215.

R. Joly, “La Salle hypostyle du palais de Mallia,” BCH 52(1928) 324-346.

E. Kirsten and K. Grundmann, “Die Grabung der Charakeshohe bei Monasteraki, I, II,” in F. Matz (ed.), Forschungen auf Kreta (Berlin 1951) 27-71.

C. Knappett, “Architectural Facilities and House Society in Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 81-96.

A. Lembesse, “O oikiskos ton Archanon,” ArchEph (1976) 12-43.

V. Lenuzza, “’The Whole Is a Freak’: A Reassessment of the Spatial Organization of the Oval House at Chamaizi, Siteia,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 59-70.

C. F. Macdonald, Knossos (London 2005).

C. F. Macdonald, “’Things Are Seldom What They Seem’: Some Middle Minoan Rooms with Gypsum Pillars at Knossos,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 120-130.

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Foundation of the Old Palaces in Crete,” Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) A1: 429-434.

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Cretan Countryside in the Old Palace Period,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the 

'Minoan Villa' (Stockholm 1997) 21-25.

J. C. McEnroe, Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age (Austin 2010) 45-67.

P. Militello, “Impianti di lavorazione a Festòs ed Haghia Triada in età palaziale: per una rassegna delle evidenze,” Creta Antica 13(2012) 109-138.

P. Militello, O. Palio, and M. Figuera, “Houses, Central Buildings and Embedded Production: Interpreting the Role of Households in Phaistos and Hagia Triada during the Palatial Periods,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 121-140.

N. Momigliano, “The 'Proto-palatial Façade' at Knossos,” BSA 87(1992) 165-175.

P. Muhly, “Minoan Hearths,” AJA 88(1984) 107-122.

K. Müller, “Ein altpalastzeitlicher Raumkomplex im Palast von Malia – Formen der rituellen Nutzung und Inszenierung eines möglichen Pfeilerraum-Vorläufers,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 137-162.

S. Müller Celka, “L’ensemble architectural de Chrysolakkos à Malia: une mise à jour,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 163-180.

J. W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Berkeley 1992).

W-D. Niemeier, “The Origins of the Minoan 'Villa' System,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the 'Minoan Villa' (Stockholm 1997) 15-19.

A. Peatfield and C. Morris, “Peak Sanctuary Figurines: Materializing Issues of Ritual Personhood within Community/House Identity,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 173-184.

O. Pelon, “La salle à piliers du Palais de Malia et ses antécédents: recherches complémentaires,” BCH 117(1993) 523-546.

G. de Pierpont, “Réflexions sur la déstination des édifices de Chrysolakkos,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), THANATOS:  Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 79-94.

D. Puglisi, “Rites of Passage in Minoan Palatial Crete and Their Role in Structuring a House Society,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 63-80.

D. Romanou, “Residence Design and Variation in Residential Group Structure: A Case Study, Mallia,” in R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond [BSA Studies 15] (London 2007) 77-90.

M. Schmid, “The Hypostyle Crypt (Quartier Kappa) and the Large Court, Malia: An Athletic Center?,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras (Philadelphia 2012) 177-186.

M. Schmid and R. Treuil, Architecture minoenne à Malia: Les bâtiments principaux du Quartier MU (Minoen Moyen II) [Études Crétoises 36] (Paris 2017).

I. Schoep, “Assessing the Role of Architecture in Conspicuous Consumption in the Middle Minoan I-II Periods,” OJA 23(2004) 243-269.

I. Schoep, “Architecture and Power: The Origins of the Minoan 'Palatial Architecture',” in J. Bretschneider, J. Driessen, and K. van Lerberghe (eds.), Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean (Leuven 2007) 213-236.

J. W. Shaw, “The Chrysolakkos Facades,” Pepragmena tou Γ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1974) 319-331.

J. W. Shaw, “The Orientation of the Minoan Palaces,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi II (Catania 1974) 47-59.

J. W. Shaw, “The Development of Minoan Orthostates,” AJA 87(1983) 213-216.

J. W. Shaw, “Architectural Signposts: Datable Ashlar Style at Middle Minoan III Kommos in South-central Crete,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 137-143.

J. W. Shaw, “The Middle Minoan Slipway for Ships at the Kommos Harbour, and Harbour Development in Prehistoric Crete,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 228-256.

J. W. Shaw, “’Mycenaean’ Façade Construction in the Western Messara, Crete,” in M. Devolder and I. Kreierman (eds.), Ashlar. Exploring the Materiality of Cut-Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age [Aegis 17] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 389-420.

Y. Spence, “Was There a Guarded Southern Entrance Way to the First Palace at Mallia?,” BSA 85(1990) 369-374.

T. Strasser, “Storage and States on Prehistoric Crete: The Function of the Koulouras in the First Minoan Palaces,” JMA 10(1997) 73-100.

S. Todaro and L. Girella, “Living through Destructions,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 133-152.

P. M. Warren, “The Minoan Roads of Knossos,” in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 189-210.

H. Waterhouse, “Middle Minoan Houses,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 311-321.

H. Waterhouse, “The Knossos 'Town Mosaic' Reconsidered,” Cretan Studies 4(1994) 165-174.

E. Yiannouli, “PM kai MM apsidota kai petaloschema ktiria kai pithane tous semasia,” Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) A1: 125-147.

J. P. Zielinski, Cyclopean Architecture in Minoan Bronze Age Crete: A Study in the Social Organization of a Complex Society (Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo 1998).


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