Guy D Middleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 300070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy D Middleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Middleton |
| SIGNATURE | MIDDLETON G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5707-4017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Buried City
Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields. Environmental determinism and apocalyptic narratives have become less acceptable and collapsology has matured into a more nuanced, self-critical, and sophisticated field. This review explores recent work on collapse in archaeology between 2012 and 2023. It demonstrates how c…
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti; Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean; a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as w…
Getting closer to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, c . 1200 BC
‘The collapse c . 1200 BC’ in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean—which saw the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite state and its empire and the kingdom of Ugarit—has intrigued archaeologists for decades. As Jesse Millek points out in Destruction and its impact , the idea of a swathe of near-synchronous destructions across the eastern Mediterranean is central to the narrative of the Late Bronze Age collapse: “destruction stands as the phy…
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC
Knossos, Mycenae, Troy
Revisiting 1177 BCE and the Late Bronze Age Collapse
Eric Cline’s 1177 BC (2014, 2021) introduced the world of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and its “collapse” to a very wide audience. More than a book about collapse, though, Cline painted a vivid picture of the region as a lively, interconnected world of kingdoms and empires, engaged in trade, diplomacy, and warfare. It has done an excellent job of popularizing the period and bringing good archaeological and historical research into th…
Collapse and Transformation
Demystifying Collapse
Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, the use of the term collapse often merely serves to dramatize long-past events, to push human actors into the background, and to mystify the past intellectually. At the same time, since human societies are complex systems, …
A tale of three cities
The turbulent years around c . 1200 BC in the eastern Mediterranean are known as a period of the collapse of states and empires. Yet by zooming in on three important royal cities, Tiryns, Hattusa and Carchemish, we can question this collapse narrative whilst at the same time exploring the now popular concept of resilience, in this case urban and cultural resilience. First these ancient cities are presented as interactive and meaningful spaces in …
I Will Follow You into the Dark
Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became a safe part of the landscape and memory of individuals and communities. In addition to anthropologic…
The show must go on
Collapse is a theme addressed by specialists from many disciplines, from environmental and sustainability studies to popular culture and the hard sciences, as well as by archaeologists and historians. This review focuses on three recent books about past collapses and sets them in the context of collapse studies. The new contributions build on the growing body of collapse theory and increasing data on individual case studies, but each takes a new …
Understanding Collapse
Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted. Rather than positing a single explanatory …
Telling Stories
The story of the P hilistines as M ycenaean or A egean migrants, refugees who fled the A egean after the collapse of the palace societies c .1200 BC , bringing an A egean culture and practices to the E astern M editerranean, is well known. Accepted as essentially true by some, yet rejected as little more than a modern myth by others, the migration narrative retains a central place in the archaeology and historiography of the E astern M editerrane…
Nothing Lasts Forever
Collapse or survival
The study of collapse has become a major research field within archaeology, as well as a popular subject in wider society, and a topic now often connected with the themes of climate change and envi
Nothing Lasts Forever
Understanding Collapse
Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted. Rather than positing a single explanatory …
The show must go on
Collapse is a theme addressed by specialists from many disciplines, from environmental and sustainability studies to popular culture and the hard sciences, as well as by archaeologists and historians. This review focuses on three recent books about past collapses and sets them in the context of collapse studies. The new contributions build on the growing body of collapse theory and increasing data on individual case studies, but each takes a new …
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields. Environmental determinism and apocalyptic narratives have become less acceptable and collapsology has matured into a more nuanced, self-critical, and sophisticated field. This review explores recent work on collapse in archaeology between 2012 and 2023. It demonstrates how c…
Telling Stories
The story of the P hilistines as M ycenaean or A egean migrants, refugees who fled the A egean after the collapse of the palace societies c .1200 BC , bringing an A egean culture and practices to the E astern M editerranean, is well known. Accepted as essentially true by some, yet rejected as little more than a modern myth by others, the migration narrative retains a central place in the archaeology and historiography of the E astern M editerrane…
Collapse or survival
The study of collapse has become a major research field within archaeology, as well as a popular subject in wider society, and a topic now often connected with the themes of climate change and envi
A tale of three cities
The turbulent years around c . 1200 BC in the eastern Mediterranean are known as a period of the collapse of states and empires. Yet by zooming in on three important royal cities, Tiryns, Hattusa and Carchemish, we can question this collapse narrative whilst at the same time exploring the now popular concept of resilience, in this case urban and cultural resilience. First these ancient cities are presented as interactive and meaningful spaces in …
Nothing Lasts Forever
Telling Stories
The story of the P hilistines as M ycenaean or A egean migrants, refugees who fled the A egean after the collapse of the palace societies c .1200 BC , bringing an A egean culture and practices to the E astern M editerranean, is well known. Accepted as essentially true by some, yet rejected as little more than a modern myth by others, the migration narrative retains a central place in the archaeology and historiography of the E astern M editerrane…
I Will Follow You into the Dark
Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became a safe part of the landscape and memory of individuals and communities. In addition to anthropologic…
The show must go on
Collapse is a theme addressed by specialists from many disciplines, from environmental and sustainability studies to popular culture and the hard sciences, as well as by archaeologists and historians. This review focuses on three recent books about past collapses and sets them in the context of collapse studies. The new contributions build on the growing body of collapse theory and increasing data on individual case studies, but each takes a new …
Understanding Collapse
Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted. Rather than positing a single explanatory …
Collapse and Transformation
Demystifying Collapse
Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, the use of the term collapse often merely serves to dramatize long-past events, to push human actors into the background, and to mystify the past intellectually. At the same time, since human societies are complex systems, …
A tale of three cities
The turbulent years around c . 1200 BC in the eastern Mediterranean are known as a period of the collapse of states and empires. Yet by zooming in on three important royal cities, Tiryns, Hattusa and Carchemish, we can question this collapse narrative whilst at the same time exploring the now popular concept of resilience, in this case urban and cultural resilience. First these ancient cities are presented as interactive and meaningful spaces in …
Revisiting 1177 BCE and the Late Bronze Age Collapse
Eric Cline’s 1177 BC (2014, 2021) introduced the world of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and its “collapse” to a very wide audience. More than a book about collapse, though, Cline painted a vivid picture of the region as a lively, interconnected world of kingdoms and empires, engaged in trade, diplomacy, and warfare. It has done an excellent job of popularizing the period and bringing good archaeological and historical research into th…
Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti; Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean; a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as w…
Getting closer to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, c . 1200 BC
‘The collapse c . 1200 BC’ in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean—which saw the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite state and its empire and the kingdom of Ugarit—has intrigued archaeologists for decades. As Jesse Millek points out in Destruction and its impact , the idea of a swathe of near-synchronous destructions across the eastern Mediterranean is central to the narrative of the Late Bronze Age collapse: “destruction stands as the phy…
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC
Knossos, Mycenae, Troy
Collapse or survival
The study of collapse has become a major research field within archaeology, as well as a popular subject in wider society, and a topic now often connected with the themes of climate change and envi
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields. Environmental determinism and apocalyptic narratives have become less acceptable and collapsology has matured into a more nuanced, self-critical, and sophisticated field. This review explores recent work on collapse in archaeology between 2012 and 2023. It demonstrates how c…
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean
The Buried City
History (15 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 works) · Bronze Age (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Ancient Near East History (5 works)