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The Power of Urban Water : Studies in Premodern Urbanism / Chiarenza Nicola, Annette Haug, Ulrich M�uller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 272 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3110677067
  • 9783110676648
  • 3110676648
  • 9783110677065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.61094 23
LOC classification:
  • PA
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Nature to Topography -- 3. Fountains and the Ancient City -- 4. Water, Social Space and Architecture at Selinous: the Case of the Urban Sanctuary -- 5. Fountains and Basins in Greek Sanctuaries -- 6. Water in Early Christian Ritual: Baptism and Baptisteries in Corinth -- 7. Aquatic Pasts & the Watery Present: Water and Memory in the Fora of Rome -- 8. Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity -- 9. Water and Urban Structures in the Narrative Worlds of Courtly Novels − Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions -- 10. Syracusan Water Networks in Antiquity -- 11. Meeting Water Needs as a Major Challenge in an Urban Context -- 12. Ice Jams and their Impact on Urban Communities from a Long-term Perspective (Middle Ages to the 19th Century) -- 13. Medieval and Post-Medieval Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 14. Harbourscapes -- 15. Human Impact on Hydrology -- 16. Water as an Economic Resource and as an Environmental Challenge Within the Urbanisation Process of the Rhine Valley in the 13th Century -- List of Contributors
Summary: Wasser ist eine globale Ressource f�ur heutige Gesellschaften - Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme f�ur Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlreichen Beitr�age dieses Bandes fragen nach der grundlegenden kulturellen Bedeutung von Wasser ( bzw. power of water) in der Stadt und Wasser f�ur die Stadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Symbolische, �asthetische oder kultische Aspekte werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Rolle von Wasser in Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft und dem allt�aglichen Handeln, aber auch in Stadtplanungsprozessen oder st�adtischen Teilr�aumen. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Gefahren von verschmutzten Wasser oder �Uberschwemmungen die st�adtische Gesellschaft vor Herausforderungen. Die Beitr�age diesen Band lenken den Blick auf die komplexen und vielf�altigen Beziehungen zwischen Wasser und Menschen. Das Sammelwerk pr�asentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung in Kiel 2018. Es wendet sich gleicherma�en an Leser aus den altertumskundlichen wie medi�avistischen F�achern und dar�uberhinaus an alle Interessierten, die sich �uber die Vielfalt von Wassersystemen im Stadtraum der Antike und des Mittelalters informieren m�ochten.Summary: Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Nature to Topography -- 3. Fountains and the Ancient City -- 4. Water, Social Space and Architecture at Selinous: the Case of the Urban Sanctuary -- 5. Fountains and Basins in Greek Sanctuaries -- 6. Water in Early Christian Ritual: Baptism and Baptisteries in Corinth -- 7. Aquatic Pasts & the Watery Present: Water and Memory in the Fora of Rome -- 8. Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity -- 9. Water and Urban Structures in the Narrative Worlds of Courtly Novels − Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions -- 10. Syracusan Water Networks in Antiquity -- 11. Meeting Water Needs as a Major Challenge in an Urban Context -- 12. Ice Jams and their Impact on Urban Communities from a Long-term Perspective (Middle Ages to the 19th Century) -- 13. Medieval and Post-Medieval Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 14. Harbourscapes -- 15. Human Impact on Hydrology -- 16. Water as an Economic Resource and as an Environmental Challenge Within the Urbanisation Process of the Rhine Valley in the 13th Century -- List of Contributors

Wasser ist eine globale Ressource f�ur heutige Gesellschaften - Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme f�ur Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlreichen Beitr�age dieses Bandes fragen nach der grundlegenden kulturellen Bedeutung von Wasser ( bzw. power of water) in der Stadt und Wasser f�ur die Stadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Symbolische, �asthetische oder kultische Aspekte werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Rolle von Wasser in Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft und dem allt�aglichen Handeln, aber auch in Stadtplanungsprozessen oder st�adtischen Teilr�aumen. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Gefahren von verschmutzten Wasser oder �Uberschwemmungen die st�adtische Gesellschaft vor Herausforderungen. Die Beitr�age diesen Band lenken den Blick auf die komplexen und vielf�altigen Beziehungen zwischen Wasser und Menschen. Das Sammelwerk pr�asentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung in Kiel 2018. Es wendet sich gleicherma�en an Leser aus den altertumskundlichen wie medi�avistischen F�achern und dar�uberhinaus an alle Interessierten, die sich �uber die Vielfalt von Wassersystemen im Stadtraum der Antike und des Mittelalters informieren m�ochten.

Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.

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