Author : James Crow
Publisher : Roman Society Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
A study of the water supply of Constantinople from Roman to early Ottoman times, including detailed maps of the system.
Author : Brooke Shilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107105994
This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004116252
This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.
Author : Cyril Mango
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 135194942X
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.
Author : Susanne Charlesworth
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0128161205
Sustainable Water Engineering introduces the latest thinking from academic, stakeholder and practitioner perspectives who address challenges around flooding, water quality issues, water supply, environmental quality and the future for sustainable water engineering. In addition, the book addresses historical legacies, strategies at multiple scales, governance and policy. Offers well-structured content that is strategic in its approach Covers up-to-date issues and examples from both developed and developing nations Include the latest research in the field that is ideal for undergraduates and post-graduate researchers Presents real world applications, showing how engineers, environmental consultancies and international institutions can use the concepts and strategies
Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004368973
Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a variety of scales and forms, based on climatic and social conditions of different areas. This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.
Author : Alexander van Millingen
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781402184543
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Murray in London, 1899.
Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108498183
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Douglas R. Underwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004390537
In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.
Author : Ronnie Ellenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1139560980
As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.
