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Handbook Hittite Empire : Power Structures / ed. by Stefano de Martino.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empires through the Ages in Global Perspective ; 1Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 799 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110657678
  • 9783110658101
  • 9783110661781
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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