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Lesson 12.3: Minoan Palatial Design and Metrology

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

E. Adams, “Approaching Monuments in the Prehistoric Built Environment: New Light on the Minoan Palaces,” OJA 26(2007) 359-394.

G. Bianco, “Two Different Building Modules of Measurement at Kommos – A Neopalatial Module in Building T and a Postpalatial Module in Building P,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 415-420.

J. Cherry, “Putting the Best Foot Forward,” Antiquity 57(1983) 52-56.

S. Chryssoulaki, “Architectural Design, Bioclimate, and Palaces: The Loom, the Warp, and the Weft,” in R. B. Koehl (ed.), AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence: Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday (Philadelphia 2013) 91-102.

M. Devolder, “Hâte-toi de bâtir la demeure. Hâte-toi d’édifier le Palais,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 165-186.

J. Driessen, “The Proliferation of Minoan Palatial Architectural Style: (I) Crete,” Acta Archaeologica Lovanensia 28-29(1989-90) 3-23.

J. Driessen, “Some Observations on the Modification of the Access Systems of Minoan Palaces,” Aegean Archaeology 2(1995) 67-85.

J. Driessen, “Crisis Architecture? Some Observations on Architectural Adaptations as Immediate Responses to Changing Socio-Cultural Conditions,” Topoi 5(1995) 63-88.

J. Driessen and I. Schoep, “The Architect and the Scribe. Political Implications of Architectural and Administrative Changes on MM II - LM IIIA Crete,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) II: 649-664.

E. Fiandra, “Similarities and Differences in the Architectural Structures of the Palaces in Crete and Ugarit,” SMEA 39(1997) 49-73.

V. Fotou, “Calculating the Manpower Requirements for the Construction of Neopalatial Buildings in Crete : Pitfalls, Challenges and Possibilities,” Aigiakes Spoudes/Aegean Studies 1(2016) 57-81.

L. Goodison, “From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Some Considerations of Dawn Light and Directionality in Minoan Buildings,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 339-350.

J. W. Graham, “The Minoan Unit of Length and Minoan Palace Planning,” AJA 64(1960) 335-341.

J. W. Graham, “Further Notes on the Minoan Foot,” Pepragmena tou B Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1967) 157-165.

R. Hägg, “On the Reconstruction of the West Facade at Knossos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 129-134.

L. Hitchcock, “The Best Laid Plans Go Astray: Modular (Ir)regularities in the ‘Residential Quarters’ at Phaistos,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège 1997) 243-250.

L. Hitchcock, “Space, the Final Frontier: Chaos, Meaning, and Grammatology in Minoan Archi(text)ure,” Archaeological News 21-22(1996-97) 46-53.

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).

Q. Letesson, “Arpenter le labyrinthe. Approche analytique des modeles d’acces et de circulation en architecture minoenne. Le cas du ‘Palais’ de Malia,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 131-163.

S. Marinatos, “Zur Orientierung der minoischen Architektur,” Proceedings of the First International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (London 1934) 197-200.

H. Matthäus, “Die minoischen Paläste. Architektur und Funktion,” in H. Siebenmorgen (ed.), Im Labyrinth des Minos. Kreta – die erste europäische Hochkultur (Munich 2000) 57-72.

D. Panagiotopoulos, “Der minoische ‘Hof’ als Kulisse zeremonieller Handlung,” in J. Maran, C. Juwig, H. Schwengel, and U. Thaler (eds.), Constructing Power: Architecture and Social Practice (Hamburg 2006) 31-48.

D. Preziosi, Minoan Architectural Design: Formation and Signification (Berlin/New York 1983).

D. Preziosi, “What Does a Module Mean?,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 233-237.

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, “Palatial Proportions: A Study of the Relative Proportions between Minoan Palaces and Their Settlements,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 239-245.

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. C. Wright, “The Social Production of Space and the Architectural Reproduction of Society in the Bronze Age Aegean during the 2nd Millennium B. C. E.,” in J. Maran, C. Juwig, H. Schwengel, and U. Thaler (eds.), Constructing Power: Architecture and Social Practice (Hamburg 2006) 49-74.


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