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Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others. Architecture of Minoan Crete is the first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture—including houses, palaces, tombs, and cities—from 7000 BC to 1100 BC. John C. McEnroe synthesizes the vast literature on Minoan Crete, with particular emphasis on the important discoveries of the past twenty years, to provide an up-to-date account of Minoan architecture. His accessible writing style, skillful architectural drawings of houses and palaces, site maps, and color photographs make this book inviting for general readers and visitors to Crete, as well as scholars.
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Minoan --- Architecture, Minoan --- Modular coordination (Architecture) --- Dimensional coordination in building --- Modular design --- Minoan architecture --- Modular coordination --- Architecture, Minoan. --- Modular coordination (Architecture). --- Architecture --- Building --- architecture [discipline] --- architectonics --- Greece --- Standardization
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What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and ‘villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment. At the same time, a new form of imagery made its appearance in a broad spectrum of objects and spaces which were ‘decorated' with meaningful motifs chosen from a restricted and repetitive pictorial repertoire. This standardized repertoire indicates the configuration of a coherent pictorial program which was implemented in several social situations. The present volume is intended not only for specialists in Minoan culture but also for readers who are interested in the social dimension of images and architectural remains and especially in issues relating to their materiality, use and perception.
Civilization [Aegean ] --- Bronze age --- Aegean Sea Region --- Art [Aegean ] --- Antiquities --- Art, Minoan --- Architecture, Minoan --- Minoans --- Art, Aegean --- Civilization, Aegean --- Aegean civilization --- Aegean art --- Civilization, Minoan --- Cretans --- Minoan architecture --- Minoan art --- Social life and customs --- Minoan culture --- Art --- Architecture --- E-books --- Conferences - Meetings --- History & Archaeology --- art minoen --- architecture --- âge du bronze --- îles de la mer Egée --- Antiquité --- histoire sociale --- histoire --- Bronze Age --- Antiquity --- art --- history --- social history --- Aegean Sea --- island
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Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis. This book explores and celebrates this rich, diverse and dynamic culture through analyses of important sites, as well as Minoan administration, writing, economy and ritual. Key themes include the role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, the variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control.
Minoans --- History. --- Crete (Greece) --- History --- Civilization. --- Palaces --- Architecture, Minoan. --- Architecture and society --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Social conditions. --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Minoan architecture --- Buildings --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Candia (Greece) --- Creta (Greece) --- Girit (Greece) --- Girit Adasi (Greece) --- Kirid (Greece) --- Krit (Greece) --- Kreta (Greece) --- Krētē (Greece) --- Kríti (Greece) --- Nísos Kríti (Greece) --- I Keretim (Greece) --- I Kritim (Greece) --- Periphereia Krētēs (Greece) --- Periféreia Krítis (Greece) --- Region of Crete (Greece) --- Crete
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