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Lesson 12.10: The Minoan Palaces as Religious Structures

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

Ch. Boulotis, “Ein Gründungsdepositum im minoischen Palast von Kato Zakros. Minoisch-mykenische Bauopfer,” Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 12(1982) 153-166.

G. Gesell, “The Minoan Palace and Public Cult,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 123-127.

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.

S. Hood, “The Minoan Palaces as Residences of Gods and Men,” in Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) 393-407.

A. MacGillivray, “The Astral Labyrinth at Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 329-338.

N. Marinatos, “Public Festivals in the West Courts of the Palaces,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 135-142.

S. Mirié, Das Thronraumareal des Palastes von Knossos: Versuch einer Neuinterpretation seiner Entstehung und seiner Funktion [Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 26] (Bonn 1979).

W.-D. Niemeier, “Zur Deutung des Thronraumes in Palast von Knossos,” AM 101(1986) 63-95.

W.-D. Niemeier, “On the Function of the ‘Throne Room’ in the Palace at Knossos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 163-168.

O. Pelon, “Aspects de la vie religieuse minoenne à la lumière des recherches récentes au palais de Malia,” CRAI (1980) 658-670.

O. Pelon, “Le palais de Malia et les jeux de taureaux,” in L. Hadermann-Misguich and G. Raepsaet (eds.), Hommages à Ch. Delvoye (Brussels 1982) 45-57.

O. Pelon, “Un dépot de fondation au palais de Malia,” BCH 110(1986) 9-16.

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.

A. Pilali-Papasteriou, “Knosos kai theokratia,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 323-327.

N. Platon, “The Minoan Palaces: Centres of Organization of a Theocratic Social and Political System,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 273-276.

H. Reusch, “Zum Wandschmuck des Thronsaales in Knossos,” in Minoica: Festschrift Johannes Sundwall (Berlin 1958) 334-358.

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

A. Yasur-Landau and N. Goshen, “The Reformed Mountains: Political and Religious Landscapes in the Aegean and the Levant,” 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) 159-164.


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