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Foreword; Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces; Introduction; List of abbreviations; Jan DRIESSEN, 'The King Must Die.' Some Observations on the Use of Minoan Court Compounds; Ilse SCHOEP, The State of the Minoan Palaces or the Minoan Palace-State?; Colin F. MACDONALD, The Neopalatial Palaces of Knossos; Giorgos RETHEMIOTAKIS, Evidence on Social and Economic Changes at Galatas and Pediada in the New-Palace Period; Vincenzo LA ROSA, Pour une revision preliminaire du second palais de Phaistos; Joseph SHAW, The Minoan Palatial Establishment at Kommos. An Anatomy of its History, Function, and Interconnections; Olivier PELON, Contribution du palais de Malia a l'etude et a l'interpretation des "palais" minoens; Jeffrey S. SOLES, A Central Court at Gournia; Metaxia TSIPOPOULOU, Petras, Siteia: The Palace, the Town, the Hinterland and the Protopalatial Background; Lefteris PLATON, The Political and Cultural Influence of the Zakros Palace on Nearby Sites and in a Wider Context; Maria ANDREADAKI-VLASAKI, Are We Approaching the Minoan Palace of Khania?; Clairy PALYVOU, Central Courts: The Supremacy of the Void; Yannis HAMILAKIS, Too Many Chiefs?: Factional Competition in Neopalatial Crete; Peter M. WARREN, Political Structure in Neopalatial Crete; Philip P. BETANCOURT, Who was in charge of the Palaces?; J. Alexander MACGILLIVRAY, Memories of a Minotaur; Peter M. DAY and Maria RELAKI, Past Factions and Present Fictions: Palaces in the Study of Minoan Crete; Klaas VANSTEENHUYSE, Minoan Courts and Ritual Competition.