Handbook Hittite Empire: Power Structures

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Handbook Hittite Empire

Power Structures

Edited by: Stefano de Martino

Volume 1 in the series Empires through the Ages in Global Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661781

Overview
Contents

About this book

This handbook offers an overview of the political, administrative and economic structure of the Hittite empire in a diachronic perspective, 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.

Author / Editor information

Stefano de Martino, University of Torino, Italy.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Peoples, Languages, and Written Documents
1 Peoples and Languages Ilya Yakubovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 Anatolian Hieroglyphic Documentation Clelia Mora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3 The Hittite Writing Traditions of Cuneiform Documents Jörg Klinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
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 Andreas Schachner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Power and Governance
5 Hatti: From Regional Polity to Empire Stefano de Martino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
6 The Governance of the Subordinated Countries Elena Devecchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
7 Elites and the Social Stratification of the Ruling Class in the Hittite Kingdom Theo van den Hout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
8 Religion and Power Daniel Schwemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Materiality of Power
9 Building for King and Country: Architecture as a Symbol of the Hittite Empire Andreas Schachner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
The Hittite King in Written and Visual Evidence
10 Hittite Kings: Self-presentation and Historiography Metin Alparslan and Meltem Doğan-Alparslan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
11 Images of the Hittite King Sanna Aro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
Features of the Economy of the Hittite State
12 Hittite Economics Jörg Klinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
13 Hittite Pottery: Research, Corpus and Social Significance Dirk Paul Mielke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
Reception
14 Rediscovery and Reception of the Hittites: An Overview Silvia Alaura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	693
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	781
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	785

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 799
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 50
- Coloured Maps: 2
Keywords: Hittite empire; Hatti state

eBook

Published: March 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110661781

Hardcover

Published: March 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110657678