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Lesson 12.13: Miscellaneous Other Functions of Minoan Palaces

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

K. S. Christakis, “Palatial Economy and Storage in Late Bronze Age Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 299-309.

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.

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.

Y. Hamilakis, “Consumption Patterns, Factional Competition and Political Developments in Bronze Age Crete,” BICS 42(1997-98) 233-234.

Y. Hamilakis, “Too Many Chiefs? Factional Competition in Neopalatial Crete,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 179-199.

T. P. Kessler, “Redistribution und Zentralisierung. Zu zwei ‘Macht’-Konzepten im Spiegel minoisch-mykenischer Bronzezeitforschung,” in D. Panagiotopoulos and M. Schlentuleit (eds.), Macht und Ohnmacht (Wiesbaden 2014) 11-31.

T. P. Kessler, “A Royal Gift? Bulk Grain Storage in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete,” SMEA NS 1(2015) 137-170.

T. P. Kessler, Subsistenz und Macht. Palatiale und elitäre Vorratshaltung auf Kreta während der Alt- und Neupalastzeit [Athenaia 9] (Berliin 2017).

M. Melas, “Transcending the ‘Palace’: Kinship versus Kingship, and the Social Dimension of Minoan Ritual,” Pepragmena tou Z Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) 613-624.

J. Moody, “The Minoan Palace as Prestige Object,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 235-241.

B. Neutsch, “Der Palast des Minos - eine Totenstadt?,” AA 88(1973) 686-699.

D. Rupp and M. Tsipopoulou, “Conical Cup Concentrations at Neopalatial Petras: A Case for a Ritualized Reception Ceremony with Token Hospitality,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 729-739.

G. Sangiglio, “Cnosso: regia o necropoli,” Magna Grecia 8(1973) 12-13.

J. S. Soles, “The Functions of a Cosmological Center: Knossos in Palatial Crete,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) II: 405-414.


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