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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

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Klappentext This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures. Zusammenfassung This collection restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium! Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul! reviving the sounds! shapes! smells and sights of past water cultures. Experts in the history of art and culture! archaeology and theology! and poetry and prose! offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one location. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson; 1. Where do we go now? The archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East Julian Richard; 2. Monumental waterworks in Late Antique Constantinople Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund; 3. Fistulae and water fraud in Late Antique Constantinople Gerda de Kleijn; 4. The Silahtaräa statues in context Brenda Longfellow; 5. The bronze goose from the hippodrome Rowena Loverance; 6. The serpent column fountain Paul Stephenson; 7. The culture of water in the 'Macedonian Renaissance' Paul Magdalino; 8. When bath became church: spatial fusion in Late Antique Constantinople and beyond Jesper Blid Kullberg; 9. Zoomorphic rainwater spouts Philipp Niewöhner; 10. Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound Eunice Dauterman Maguire; 11. Fountains of paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns Brooke Shilling; 12. Where did the waters of paradise go after iconoclasm? Henry Maguire; 13. 'Rejoice, Spring.' The Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography Helena Bodin; 14. Words, water, and power: literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Ingela Nilsson; 15. Ancient water in fictional fountains: waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances Terése Nilsson; 16. The shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege Isabel Kimmelfield; 17. A dome for the water: canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople Federica Broilo; 18. Sinan's ablution fountains Johan Mårtelius....

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Authors Brooke Shilling, Brooke (University of Lincoln) Stephenso Shilling, Brooke Stephenson Shilling
Assisted by Brooke Shilling (Editor), Brooke (University of Lincoln) Shilling (Editor), Paul Stephenson (Editor), Paul (University of Lincoln) Stephenson (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.10.2016
 
EAN 9781107105997
ISBN 978-1-107-10599-7
No. of pages 406
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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