• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Handbook of hittite empire : power structures
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: De Martino, Stefano [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]
  • Published in: Empires through the ages in global perspective ; 1
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 799 Seiten)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783110661781
  • ISBN: 9783110661781
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Altes Reich ; Hatti-Staat ; hethitisches Reiche
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: This handbook offers an overview of the political, administrative and economic structure of the Hittite empire in a diachronic pespective, from the Old Kingdom untill the fall of the Hatti state. It will deal with: the relation between environment and political power;the political and administrative structure; war; religion and power
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