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Minoan architecture and urbanism : new perspectives on an ancient built environment

Title
Minoan architecture and urbanism : new perspectives on an ancient built environment / edited by Quentin Letesson and Carl Knappett.
Publication
  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Letesson, Quentin
  • Knappett, Carl
  • From Static Data to Dynamic Processes: New Perspectives on Minoan Architecture and Urbanism (Workshop) (2015 : University of Toronto)
Description
xxi, 393 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Architecture, Minoan
  • Cities and towns, Ancient > Greece > Crete
Note
  • "This volume arises from a workshop entitled From Static Data to Dynamic Processes: New Perspectives on Minoan Architecture and Urbanism held at the University of Toronto, 5-6 January 2015"--Page v.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 0198793626
  • 9780198793625
LCCN
2016960174
OCLC
  • ocn970798541
  • 970798541
  • SCSB-14612363
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Columbia University Libraries