Handbook Hittite Empire. Power Structures 9783110657678
The current volume appears in the series Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective, which is edited by Robert Rolli
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English Pages [793] Year 2022
Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Foreword
Peoples, Languages, and Written Documents
1 Peoples and Languages
2 Anatolian Hieroglyphic Documentation
3 The Hittite Writing Traditions of Cuneiform Documents
Environment
4 Geographical Prerequisites versus Human Behavior: Settlement Geography, Rural Economy, and Ideological Aspects of Anthropogenic Relations with the Natural Environment during the Second Millennium BC in Central Anatolia
Power and Governance
5 Hatti: From Regional Polity to Empire
6 The Governance of the Subordinated Countries
7 Elites and the Social Stratification of the Ruling Class in the Hittite Kingdom
8 Religion and Power
Materiality of Power
9 Building for King and Country: Architecture as a Symbol of the Hittite Empire
The Hittite King in Written and Visual Evidence
10 Hittite Kings: Self-presentation and Historiography
11 Images of the Hittite King
Features of the Economy of the Hittite State
12 Hittite Economics
13 Hittite Pottery: Research, Corpus and Social Significance
Reception
14 Rediscovery and Reception of the Hittites: An Overview
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Table of Contents
Foreword
Peoples, Languages, and Written Documents
1 Peoples and Languages
2 Anatolian Hieroglyphic Documentation
3 The Hittite Writing Traditions of Cuneiform Documents
Environment
4 Geographical Prerequisites versus Human Behavior: Settlement Geography, Rural Economy, and Ideological Aspects of Anthropogenic Relations with the Natural Environment during the Second Millennium BC in Central Anatolia
Power and Governance
5 Hatti: From Regional Polity to Empire
6 The Governance of the Subordinated Countries
7 Elites and the Social Stratification of the Ruling Class in the Hittite Kingdom
8 Religion and Power
Materiality of Power
9 Building for King and Country: Architecture as a Symbol of the Hittite Empire
The Hittite King in Written and Visual Evidence
10 Hittite Kings: Self-presentation and Historiography
11 Images of the Hittite King
Features of the Economy of the Hittite State
12 Hittite Economics
13 Hittite Pottery: Research, Corpus and Social Significance
Reception
14 Rediscovery and Reception of the Hittites: An Overview
List of Contributors
Index of Names
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- Stefano de Martino (editor)
