Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

Brooke Shilling (University of Lincoln), Paul Stephenson (University of Lincoln)

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Cambridge University Press
13 October 2016

History of art: ancient & classical art; Sculpture; Social & cultural history

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 which it gushed. Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real, imagined and symbolic. 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.

Edited by: Brooke Shilling (University of Lincoln), Paul Stephenson (University of Lincoln)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 970g
ISBN: 9781107105997
ISBN 10: 1107105994
Pages: 406
Publication Date: 13 October 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 focuses on Byzantium.