Handbook of Hittite Empire : Power Structures

Weitere Verfasser: de Martino, Stefano , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (viii, 799 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Empires through the ages in global perspective 1
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Parallelausgabe: EPUB | ISSN: 9783110658101
Handbook of Hittite Empire (Print version) | ISSN: 9783110657678
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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