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Minoan Realities

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Minoan Realities Book PDF

Author : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 9782875881007

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Minoan Realities by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

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.

Minoan Realities

Collectif
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Author : Collectif
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875581013

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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.

Elite Minoan Architecture

Joseph W. Shaw
Elite Minoan Architecture Book PDF

Author : Joseph W. Shaw
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623033903

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Elite Minoan Architecture by Joseph W. Shaw Pdf

The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectual development concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia, and Phaistos where those very forms seem to have originated. Other Minoan towns and palaces in Crete are referenced when appropriate.

Minoan Archaeology

Sarah Cappel,Ute Günkel-Maschek,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Minoan Archaeology Book PDF

Author : Sarah Cappel,Ute Günkel-Maschek,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875583949

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Minoan Archaeology by Sarah Cappel,Ute Günkel-Maschek,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. The present volume aim to outline current trends and prospects of this scientific field.

Minoan Zoomorphic Culture

Emily S. K. Anderson
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Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009452069

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Minoan Zoomorphic Culture by Emily S. K. Anderson Pdf

Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals-engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls-contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities.

Minoan Architecture and Urbanism

Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
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Author : Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192512246

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism by Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett Pdf

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.

Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl

Judith Weingarten,Colin F. Macdonald,Joan Aruz,Lara Fabian,Nisha Kumar
Processions Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B Koehl Book PDF

Author : Judith Weingarten,Colin F. Macdonald,Joan Aruz,Lara Fabian,Nisha Kumar
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275345

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Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl by Judith Weingarten,Colin F. Macdonald,Joan Aruz,Lara Fabian,Nisha Kumar Pdf

Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography

Fritz Blakolmer
Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography Book PDF

Author : Fritz Blakolmer
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589682

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Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography by Fritz Blakolmer Pdf

The aim of this volume is to present an overview of current trends and individual methodological attempts towards arriving at an adequate understanding of Minoan, Cycladic, and Mycenaean iconography.

In Search of the Labyrinth

Nicoletta Momigliano
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Author : Nicoletta Momigliano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350156715

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In Search of the Labyrinth by Nicoletta Momigliano Pdf

Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologies 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts – from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.

Far from Equilibrium: An archaeology of energy, life and humanity

Michael J. Boyd,Roger C. P. Doonan
Far from Equilibrium An archaeology of energy life and humanity Book PDF

Author : Michael J. Boyd,Roger C. P. Doonan
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256062

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Far from Equilibrium: An archaeology of energy, life and humanity by Michael J. Boyd,Roger C. P. Doonan Pdf

Archaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hard-won battle to find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA that reduce humanity’s most intriguing historical problems to two-dimensional caricatures. Today archaeology finds itself less able than ever to proclaim its relevance to the modern world. This volume foregrounds the relevance of the scholarship of John Barrett to this crisis. Twenty-four writers representing three generations of archaeologists scrutinise the current turmoil in the discipline and highlight the resolutions that may be found through Barrett’s analytical framework. Topics include archaeology and the senses, the continuing problem of the archaeological record, practice, discourse, and agency, reorienting archaeological field practice, the question of different expressions of human diversity, and material ecologies. Understanding archaeology as both a universal and highly specific discipline, case-studies range from the Aegean to Orkney, and encompass Anatolia, Korea, Romania, United Kingdom and the very nature of the Universe itself. This critical examination of John Barrett’s contribution to archaeology is simultaneously a response to his urgent call to arms to reorient archaeology in the service of humanity.

OIKOS

Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki
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Author : Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589965

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OIKOS by Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki Pdf

This collection of papers explores whether the Lévi-Straussian notion of the House is a valid concept in aiding the comprehension of the social structure of Bronze Age Aegean societies. The volume succeeds in stressing the advances made in the study of social structure of the Aegean on the basis of material remains.

Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete

Ellen Adams
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Author : Ellen Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197527

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Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete by Ellen Adams Pdf

A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory

Stella Souvatzi,Athena Hadji
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory Book PDF

Author : Stella Souvatzi,Athena Hadji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135042899

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Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory by Stella Souvatzi,Athena Hadji Pdf

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences; the comparative theoretical and methodological neglect of time and temporality; the lack in the existing literature of an explicit and balanced focus on both space and time; and the large amount of new information coming from prehistoric Mediterranean. It focuses on the active and interactive role of space and time in the production of any social environment, drawing equally on contemporary theory and on case-studies from Mediterranean prehistory. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory seeks to break down the space-time continuum, often assumed rather than inferred, into space-time units and to uncover the varying and variable interrelations of space and time in prehistoric societies across the Mediterranean. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehistory and revisits these concepts to develop a timely integrative conceptual and analytical framework for the study of space and time in archaeology.

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin
Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art Book PDF

Author : Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351682961

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Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art by Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin Pdf

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today’s world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.

Death in Late Bronze Age Greece

Joanne M. A. Murphy
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Author : Joanne M. A. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190926069

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Death in Late Bronze Age Greece by Joanne M. A. Murphy Pdf

"Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. By bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena"--