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Lesson 12.11: The Minoan Palaces as Craft and Production Centers

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

S. Alexiou, “Minoan Palaces as Centers of Trade and Manufacture,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 251-253.

T. Carter, “Transformative Processes in Liminal Spaces: Craft as Ritual Action in the Throne Room Area,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 273-282.

K. S. Christakis, The Politics of Storage: Storage and Scoiopolitical Complexity in Neopalatial Crete (Philadelphia 2008).

C. Knappett, “Assessing a Polity in Protopalatial Crete: The Malia-Lasithi State,” AJA 103(1999) 615-639.

G. Kopcke, “The Cretan Palaces and Trade,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 255-260.

E. Marcelis, “Quelques réflexions à propos de l'organization de l'artisanat minoen à l'époque des premiers et des seconds palais,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 29-34.

B. Montecchi, Contare a Haghia Triada. Le tavolette in lineare A, i documenti sigillati e il sistema economico-amministrativo nel TM IB [Incunabula Graeca 107] (Rome 2019).

L. Platon, “Anypographa ‘erga  technes’ sta cheria idioton kata te neoanaktorike periodo sten Krete,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) 37-50.

J.-C. Poursat, “Ateliers et artisans minoens,” Pepragmena tou E' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 1985) I: 297-300.

J.-C. Poursat, “L'essor du système palatial en Crète: l'état et les artisans,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 185-188.

G. Walberg, “Minoan Economy: An Alternative Model,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 157-161.

M. Wiener, “Trade and Rule in Palatial Crete,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 261-267.


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