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Lesson 12.9: The Minoan Political System, Minoan Warfare, and Inter-palace Relations

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

E. Adams, “Power Relations in Minoan Palatial Towns: An Analysis of Neopalatial Knossos and Mallia,” JMA 17(2004) 191-222.

E. Adams, “Power and Ritual in Neopalatial Crete,” WorldArch 36(2004) 26-42.

E. Adams, “Social Strategies and Spatial Dynamics in Neopalatial Crete: An Analysis of the North-Central Area,” AJA 110(2006) 1-36.

E. Adams, “‘Time and Chance’: Unraveling Temporality in North-central Neopalatial Crete,” AJA 111(2007) 391-421.

C. Baurain, “‘Entha te Minos enneoros basileue’ (Homère, Od. XIX 178-179),” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 29-38.

P. P. Betancourt, “Who Was in Charge of the Palaces?,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 207-211.

A. Bevan, “Political Geography and Palatial Crete,” JMA 23(2010) 27-54.

G. Cadogan, “Malia and Lasithi: A Palace-State,” in Pepragmena tou Z Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) A1: 97-104.

K. Christakis, “Petras, Siteia: Political, Economic, and Ideological Trajectories of a Polity,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 205-220.

T. Cunningham and J. Driessen, “Site by Site: Combining Survey and Excavation Data to Chart Patterns of Socio-political Change in Bronze Age Crete,” in S. Alcock and J. Cherry (eds.), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World (Oxford 2004) 101-113.

K. Damilati and G. Vavouranakis, “‘Society against the State?’ Contextualizing Inequality and Power in Bronze Age Crete,” in R. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis (eds.), State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Oxford 2011) 32-60.

M. Devolder, Composantes et interactions sociales en Crète néopalatiale (1700-1450 av. J.-C.). Investigation des données archéologiques (PhD dissertation, University of Louvain-la-Neuve 2009).

J. Driessen, “Spirit of Place: Minoan Houses as Major Actors,” in D. J. Pullen (ed.), Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2010) 35-65.

J. Driessen, “'Das andere Geschlecht'. Beobachtungen zur Sozialstruktur im minoischen Kreta,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 15-30.

D. Evely, “The Neo-Palatial Minoan Warrior: Fact or Fiction,” in D. Evely, I. S. Lemos, and S. Sherratt (eds.), Minotaur and Centaur: Studies in the Archaeology of Crete and Euboea Presented to Mervyn Popham [BAR-IS 638] (Oxford 1996) 59-69.

Y. Galanakis, E. Tsitsa, and U. Günkel-Maschek, “The Power of Images: Re-examining the Wall Paintings from the Throne Room at Knossos,” BSA 112(2017) 47-98.

L. Girella, “Continuità e transizione del potere nella Messarà a Creta durante il Medio Minoico III (ca. 1750-1670 a.C.),” in F. Longo, R. Di Cesare, and S. Privitera (eds.), DROMOI: Studi sul mondo antico offerti a Emanuele Greco dagli allievi della Scuola Archeological Italiana di Atene (Paestum 2016) 73-88.

Y. Hamilakis, “Wine, Olive Oil, and the Dialectics of Power in Bronze Age Crete: A Review of the Evidence,” OJA 15(1996) 1-32.

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

Y. Hamilakis, “Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.

Y. Hamilakis, “Food Technologies/Technologies of the Body: The Social Context of Wine and Olive Oil Production and Consumption in Bronze Age Crete,” WorldArch 31(1999) 38-54.

Y. Hamilakis, “The Anthropology of Food and Drink Consumption and the Aegean Archaeology,” in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 59-67.

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.

M. Haysom, “Fish and Ships: Neopalatial Seascapes in Context,” in G. Vavouranakis (ed.), The Seascape in Aegean Prehistory [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 14] (Aarhus 2011) 139-160.

M. Hollinshead, “Some Impressions of Knossos and King Minos’ Time,” New England Classical Journal 33(2006) 9-19.

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

C. J. Knappett and I. Schoep, “Continuity and Change in Minoan Political Power,” Antiquity 74(2000) 365-371.

R. B. Koehl, “The Nature of Minoan Kingship,” in P. Rehak (ed.), The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 11] (Liège/Austin 1995) 23-36.

V. La Rosa, “Preliminary Considerations on the Problem of the Relationship between Phaistos and Hagia Triada,” in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), A Great Minoan Triangle in South-central Crete: Kommos, Hagia Triadha, Phaistos [Scripta Mediterranea 6] (Toronto 1985) 45-54.

S. Manning, “The Military Function in Late Minoan I Crete,” WorldArch 18:2(1986) 284-288.

N. Marinatos, “Divine Kingship in Minoan Crete,” in P. Rehak (ed.), The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 11] (Liège/Austin 1995) 37-48.

N. Marinatos and R. Hägg, On the Ceremonial Function of the Minoan Polythyron,” OpAth 16(1986) 57-73.

G. D. Middleton, “Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies,” Journal of Archaeological Research 20(2012) 257-307.

G. D. Middleton, Understanding Collpse: Ancient History and Modern Myths (Cambridge 2017), esp. 109-128.

B. P. C. Molloy, “Malice in Wonderland: The Role of Warfare in ‘Minoan’ Society,” in S. O’Brien and D. Boatright (eds.), Warfare and Society in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean [BAR-IS 2583] (Oxford 2013) 59-70.

A. Murock Hussein, “Minoan Goat Hunting: Social Status and the Economics of War,” in K. Duistermaat and I. Regulski (eds.), Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 202] (Leuven 2011) 569-588.

T. G. Palaima, Preliminary Comparative Textual Evidence for Palatial Control of Economic Activity in Minoan and Mycenaean Crete,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 301-306.

N. Panagiotakis, “Contacts between Knossos and the Pediada Region in Central Crete,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 177-186.

O. Pelon, “Reflexions sur la fonction politique dans un palais crétois,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 251-257.

J.-C. Poursat, “Malia: Palace, State, City,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 259-268.

D. J. Pullen, “Measuring Levels of Integration and Social Change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean Societies: From Chiefdoms to Proto-States,” in R. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis (eds.), State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Oxford 2011) 18-31.

G. Rethemiotakis, “Social Rank and Political Power. The Evidence from the Minoan Palace at Galatas,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) I: 19-26.

I. Schoep, “Ritual, Politics and Script on Minoan Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 1(1994) 7-25.

I. Schoep, “Context and Chronology of Linear A Administrative Documents,” Aegean Archaeology 2(1995) 29-65.

I. Schoep, Minoan Administration on Crete. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Documents in Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leuven 1996).

I. Schoep, “Towards an Interpretation of Different Levels of Administration in Late Minoan IB Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 3(1996) 75-85.

I. Schoep, “Tablets and Territories? Reconstructing Late Minoan IB Political Geography through Undeciphered Documents,” AJA 103(1999) 201-221.

I. Schoep, “The Socio-economic Context of Seal Use and Administration at Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 283-293.

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.

E. Schofield, “Migration Theory and the Minoans,” Cretan Studies 6(1996) 41-50.

J. Soles, “The Collapse of Minoan Civilization: The Evidence of the Broken Ashlar,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 57-65.

C. J. Tully and S. Crooks, “Enthroned upon Mountains: Constructions of Power in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in L. Naeh and D. Brostowsky Gilboa (eds.), The Ancient Throne: The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE [OREA 14] (Vienna 2020) 37-60.

M. and H. Van Effenterre, “Les ‘lois de Minos’,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 335-339.

K. Vansteenhuyse, “Minoan Courts and Ritual Competition,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 235-248.

K. Vansteenhuyse, “A Study of Political Institutions in Neopalatial Minoan Crete,” in G. Muskett, A. Koltsida, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), SOMA 2001: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology 2001 [BAR-IS 1040] (Oxford 2002) 157-160.

K. Vansteenhuyse, “Centralisation and the Political Institution of Late Minoan IA Crete,” in R. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis (eds.), State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Oxford 2011) 61-74.

P. Warren, “Political Structure in Neopalatial Crete,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 201-205.

P. Warren, “Terra cognita? The Territory and Boundaries of the Early Neopalatial Knossian State,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (Athens 2004) 159-168.

P. M. Warren, “The Apogee of Minoan Civilization: The Final Neopalatial Period,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR: Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 255-272.

L. V. Watrous, “An Overview of Secondary State Formation on Crete: The Mirabello Region during the Bronze Age,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras (Philadelphia 2012) 273-282.

L. V. Watrous and D. Hadzi-Vallianou, “Palatial Rule and Collapse (Middle Minoan IB – Late Minoan IIIB),” in L. V. Watrous, D. Hadzi-Vallianou, and H. Blitzer, The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete [Monumenta Archaeologica 23] (Los Angeles 2004) 277-304.

T. Whitelaw, “Recognising Polities in Prehistoric Crete,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 210-255.

H. Whittaker, “The Hidden Ruler: Art and Politics in Minoan Crete,” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7:3(2015) 90-94.

M. Wiener, “Present Arms/Oars/Ingots: Searching for Evidence of Military or Maritime Administration in LM IB,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 411-423.

M. H. Wiener, “Neopalatial Knossos : Rule and Role,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 231-242


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