Handbook Hittite Empire. Power Structures

Description

The current volume appears in the series Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective, which is edited by Robert Rollinger, Kai Ruffing and Michael Gehler, and hence our primary objective was to present the most significant aspects of the political history of the Hittite kingdom of Hatti, a typology of the written and archaeological evidence, the structure, the administrative organisation, and the economy of this state. This book aims to reach a varied audience that includes the researchers in the field of Hittitology and ancient Near Eastern studies, as well scholars of other historical disciplines and keen readers of history and archaeology. 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