Handbook Hittite Empire. Power Structures

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