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Lesson 12.2: General

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

I. Beyer, Der minoisch-mykenische Palasttempel und seine Wirkung auf den dorischen Tempel (Freiburg 1981).

F. Blakolmer, “Vom Thronraum in Knossos zum Löwentor von Mykene. Kontinuitäten in Bildkunst und Palastideologie,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 63-80.

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

M. Cultraro, L’anello di Minosse: archeologia della regalità nell’Egeo minoico (Milan 2001).

S. Damiani Indelicato, Piazza pubblica e palazzo nella Creta minoica (Rome 1982).

S. Damiani Indelicato, “Place publique et palais dans la Crète minoenne,” Pepragmena tou Ε' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 1985) 93-100.

S. Damiani Indelicato, “Minoan Town Planning: A New Approach,” BICS 33(1986) 138-139.

S. Damiani Indelicato, “Plaidoyer pour un meilleur usage du mot palais en archéologie minoenne,” Revue des Études Anciennes 90(1988) 65-83.

P. M. Day and M. Relaki, “Past Factions and Present Fictions: Palaces in the Study of Minoan Crete,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 217-234.

M. Devolder, Construire en Crète minoenne. Une approche énergétique de l’architecture néopalatiale [Aegaeum 35] (Leuven 2013).

M. Devolder, “Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture: Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 57-79.

J. Driessen, “‘The Archaeology of a Dream’: The Reconstruction of Minoan Public Architecture,” JMA 12(1999) 121-127.

J. Driessen, “‘The King Must Die.’ Some Observations on the Use of Minoan Court Compounds,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 1-14.

J. Driessen, “The Court Compounds of Minoan Crete: Royal Palaces or Ceremonial Centers?,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 57-61.

J. Driessen, “Chercher la femme. Identifying Minoan Gender Relations in the Built Environment,” in D. Panagiotopoulos and U. Günkel-Maschek (eds.), Minoan Realities: Approaches to Images, Architecture, and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegis 5] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2012) 141-163.

J. Driessen, “Beyond the Collective . . . The Minoan Palace in Action,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 291-313.

J. Driessen and C. F. Macdonald, The Troubled Island: Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption [Aegaeum 17] (Liège/Austin 1997].

S. Evasdaughter, Crete Reclaimed: A Feminist Exploration of Bronze Age Crete (Loughborough 1996).

C. Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago 2009).

J. W. Graham, The Palaces of Crete (Princeton 1962, 1986).

L. Hitchcock, Fabricating Signification: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships between Room Types in Minoan Monumental Architecture (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles 1998).

L. A. Hitchcock, Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis (Jonsered 2000).

L. A. Hitchcock, “Understanding the Minoan Palaces,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 27-35.

L. A. Hitchcock, “‘And Above Were Costly Stones, Hewn According to Measurement . . .’: Documentation of Pre-classical Ashlar Masonry in the East Mediterranean,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 257-267.

F. Höflmayer, “Das Ende von SM IB: naturwissenschaftliche und archäologische Datierung,” Ägypten und Levante 18(2009) 157-171.

F. Höflmayer, Die Synchronisierung der minoischen Alt- und Neupalastzeit mit der ägyptischen Chronologie (PhD dissertation, University of Vienna 2010).

F. Höflmayer, Die Synchronisierung der minoischen Alt- und Neupalastzeit mit der ägyptischen Chronologie (Vienna 2012).

W. Kamm, “Konstruktionsprinzipien der minoischen Palastarchitektur,” in Kolloquium zur ägäischen Vorgeschichte [Schriften des Deutschen Archäologen-Verbandes 9] (Mannheim 1987) 28-40.

A. B. Knapp, “Monumental Architecture, Identity and Memory,” in A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Weilheim 2009) 47-59.

I. Kreimerman and M. Devolder, “Leaving No Ashlar Unturned: Definitions, Technical Features and Regional Synopsis of Cut-Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age,” 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) 1-72.

Q. Letesson, Du phénotype au génotype: analyse de la syntaxe spatiale en architecture minoenne (MMIIIB-MRIB) [Aegis 2] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2009).

Q. Letesson and K. Vansteenhuyse, “Towards an Archaeology of Perception: ‘Looking’ at the Minoan Palaces,” JMA 19(2006) 91-119.

C. F. Macdonald, “The Prelude to Mycenaean Crete,” in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplement 30] (Paris 1997) 267-273.

C. F. Macdonald, “Punctuation in Palatial Prehistory: Earthquakes as the Stratigraphical Markers of the 18th–15th Centuries BC in Central Crete,” in S. Jusseret and M. Sintubin (eds.), Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity (Leuven 2017) 327-358.

J. A. MacGillivray, “Memories of a Minotaur,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 213-216.

J. A. MacGillivray, “Return to the Labyrinth: A Clew to the Function of the Minoan Palaces,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 62-66.

N. Marinatos, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess. A Near Eastern Koine (Chicago 2010).

J. C. McEnroe, Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age (Austin 2010) 69-92.

M. A. Miller, “Courtyard Complexes and the Labyrinth of Minoan Culture,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 16-26.

A. Mosso, The Palaces of Crete and Their Builders (London 1907).

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

C. Palyvou, “Circulatory Patterns in Minoan Architecture,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 195-203.

C. Palyvou, “Outdoor Space in Minoan Architecture: ‘Community and Privacy’,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 207-217.

C. Palyvou, Daidalos at Work: A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture (Philadelphia 2018).

O. Pelon, “Publication d'un palais minoen: Éléments pour une chronologie,” in Pepragmena tou E' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 1985) 275-283.

O. Pelon, “Particularités et developpement des palais minoens,” in E. Lévy (ed.), Le système palatial en Orient, en Grèce et à Rome (Strasbourg 1987) 187-201.

N. Platon, “Synkritike chronologia ton trion minoïkon anaktoron,” Pepragmena tou Α' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou [Kretika Chronika 15-16] (Heraklion 1961-62) 127-136.

N. Platon, “Ta problemata chronologias ton minoïkon anaktoron,” ArchEph (1968) 1-58.

P. Rehak and J. G. Younger, “Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete,” AJA 102(1998) 91-173, esp. 100-104.

P. Rehak and J. G. Younger, “Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete" and “Addendum: 1998-1999,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 383-465 and 466-473.

W. Schiering, “Gestaltung und Aufgabe der Paläste des minoischen Kreta,” AK 25(1994) 178-190.

I. Schoep, “The State of the Minoan Palaces or the Minoan Palace-State?,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 15-33.

I. Schoep, “Architecture and Power: The Origins of 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.

I. Schoep, “The Minoan ‘Palace-Temple’ Reconsidered: A Critical Reassessment of the Spatial Concentration of Political, Religious and Economic Power in Bronze Age Crete,” JMA 23(2010) 219-243.

I. Schoep, “Building the Labyrinth: Arthur Evans and the Construction of Minoan Civilization,” AJA 122(2018) 5-32.

J. W. Shaw, “Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques,” ASAtene 49(1971) 7-265.

J. W. Shaw, Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques [Studi di archeologia cretese 7] (Padova 2009).

J. W. Shaw, “The Character, Genesis, and Influence of Minoan Palatial Architecture,” in A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Weilheim 2009) 61-89.

J. W. Shaw, “Setting in the Palaces of Minoan Crete: A Review of How and When,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 303-314.

J. W. Shaw, Elite Minoan Architecture: Its Development at Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia [Prehistory Monographs 49] (Philadelphia 2015).

T. F. Tartaron, “Aegean Prehistory as World Archaeology: Recent Trends in the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece,” Journal of Archaeological Research 16(2008) 83-161.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Palace-centered Polities in Eastern Crete: Neopalatial Petras and its Neighbors,” in W. E. Aufrecht, N. A. Mirau, and S. W. Gauley, Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete (Sheffield 1997) 263-277.

H. Van Effenterre, “The Function of Monumentality in the Minoan Palaces,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 85-87.

H. Van Effenterre, “Les fonctions palatiales dans la Crète minoenne,” in E. Lévy (ed.), Le système palatial en Orient, en Grèce et à Rome (Strasbourg 1987) 173-185.

G. Vavouranakis, “Palatial Style Architecture and Power in Bronze Age Crete,” in S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds.), Mediterranean Crossroads (Athens 2007) 263-289.

G. Vavouranakis, Eikona kai archaiologia: E periptose tes proïstorikes architektonikes. Meros A’. E apeikonise kai e melete tes proïstorikes architektonikes sto Aigaio (Athens 2015).

P. M. Warren, “Minoan Palaces,” Scientific American 253(1985) 94-103.

H. G. Wunderlich, The Secret of Crete (1974).

E. Yannouli, Reason in Architecture: The Component of Space. A Study of Domestic and Palatial Buildings in Bronze Age Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge 1992).


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