Architecture and politics in Mycenaean Greece : stoneworking, labor, and regional ties in the late Bronze age / Nicholas G. Blackwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackwell, Nicholas G., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Mycenaean--Political aspects.

Architecture, Mycenaean.

Stone carving--Political aspects--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Stone carving.

Geopolitics--Mediterranean Region--History.

Geopolitics.

Bronze age--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Bronze age.

Mycenae (Extinct city)--Politics and government.

Mycenae (Extinct city).

Greece--Foreign relations--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Geopolitics--History.

Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

350 pages

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the period's geopolitical dynamics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Tools, stoneworker mobility, and the Argolid

Building memory : Mycenae's stonework as visual manipulation of the past

Creating wonder : Mycenae's stonework as spectacle and power statements

Mycenae's relationship with Tiryns and other citadels in the Argolid : stonework, politics, and interculturalism

Beyond the Argolid : stoneworking connections between Mycenae-Tiryns and Boeotia

Conclusions : Mycenaean political dynamics from a stonework perspective

Epilogue : memory and legends associated with the Argolid and Boeotia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Blackwell, Nicholas G. Architecture and politics in Mycenaean Greece

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781009739542

1009739549

9781009739580

1009739581

OCLC:

1546843848

Publisher Number:

CIPO000359560