Compte-rendu de « Elite Minoan architecture: its development at Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. By Joseph W. Shaw, INSTAP Prehistory monographs, 49, xxv, 196 p. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2015 »

The purpose of the book is to study the appearance, development and function of the features that characterize Minoan elite architecture, concentrating on the late Proto- and early Neopalatial periods, i.e. the Middle Minoan (MM) II and MM III phases. To do so, the author focuses on the three palatial sites of Knossos, Phaistos and Malia. The study is set in a purely Cretan setting, as the author views Minoan elite style as an indigenous development, despite the influence of an eastern “idea of monumentality”