Author : James Crow
Publisher : Roman Society Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,38 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 : 13,45 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 : 12,9 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 : 31,57 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 : 45,70 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 : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 28,36 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 : Alexander van Millingen
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,52 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 : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,81 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 : Ronnie Ellenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,13 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.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0306825856
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
