Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean

Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean
ISBN-10
9042918314
ISBN-13
9789042918313
Category
Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Peeters Publishers
Authors
Jan Driessen, Karel van Lerberghe, Joachim Bretschneider

Description

The idea that societies and rulers express their power through monumental architecture is not a new one, but this collection of essays, the result of a 2002 conference in Leuven, takes the arguement back to the very beginnings of monumental architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean, to ask if this process can be linked to a particular ...

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