Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment, 1st Edition eBook

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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.

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment 1st Edition is written by Quentin Letesson; Carl Knappett and published by OUP Oxford. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Minoan Architecture and Urbanism are 9780192512253, 0192512250 and the print ISBNs are 9780198793625, 0198793626. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780192512246.