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Beschaving [Minoïsche ] --- Minoans --- Minoens --- Minoïsche beschaving --- Minoïsche cultuur --- -Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Religion --- -Religion --- Civilization, Minoan --- Crete (Greece)

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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Architecture, Minoan. --- Architecture minoenne --- Minoans --- Architecture, Minoan --- Minoan architecture --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans

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Minoans --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Antiquities. --- Crete (Greece)

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Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with preeminent 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 --- Civilization, Minoan --- History --- Crete (Greece) --- Civilization. --- Minoans. --- Architecture, Minoan --- Human settlements --- Material culture --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans

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Civilization, Minoan --- Minoans --- Bronze age --- Crete (Greece) --- Antiquities --- -Minoans --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Civilization --- -Antiquities --- Minoans. --- Antiquities. --- Bronze age - Greece - Crete --- Crete (Greece) - Antiquities