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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Brooke Shilling
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Description for Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
hardcover. This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures. Editor(s): Shilling, Brooke; Stephenson, Paul. Num Pages: 406 pages, 83 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; ACG; AFKB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 256 x 26. Weight in Grams: 972.
This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from ... Read more
This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107105997
SKU
V9781107105997
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Ref
99-12
About Brooke Shilling
Brooke Shilling is a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Lincoln. Her areas of research include Late Antique and Byzantine mosaic art. Paul Stephenson is Professor of History and Head of the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. He is the author or editor of eight books and his research ... Read more
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