Fountains and water culture in Byzantium / edited by Brooke Shilling (University of Lincoln), Paul Stephenson (University of Lincoln).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shilling, Brooke, editor.

Stephenson, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture.

History.

Monuments.

Fountains.

Water--Social aspects.

Water.

Manners and customs.

Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs.

Byzantine Empire.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Water--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--History.

Water--Social aspects--Turkey--Istanbul--History--To 1500.

Fountains--Byzantine Empire--History.

Fountains--Turkey--Istanbul--History--To 1500.

Monuments--Byzantine Empire--History.

Landscape architecture--Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine antiquities.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Antiquities.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Physical Description:

xiv, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"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. The first study of water culture and fountains in Byzantium. Presents Byzantine material in a longer chronology, across several disciplines, embracing late Roman material as well as Ottoman material. Includes work from established names in the field as well as new voices"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson

Where do we go now? : the archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East / Julian Richard

Monumental waterworks in late antique Constantinople / Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund

Fistulae and water fraud in late antique Constantinople / Gerda de Kleijn

The Silahtara'a statues in context / Brenda Longfellow

The Bronze Goose from the Hippodrome / Rowena Loverance

The Serpent Column fountain / Paul Stephenson

The culture of water in the "Macedonian Renaissance" / Paul Magdalino

When bath became church : spatial fusion in late antique Constantinople and beyond / Jesper Blid Kullberg

Zoomorphic rainwater spouts / Philipp Niewöhner

Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound / Eunice Dauterman Maguire

Fountains of Paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns / Brooke Shilling

Where did the waters of Paradise go after iconoclasm? / Henry Maguire

"Rejoice, spring" : the Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography / Helena Bodin

Words, water, and power : literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson

Ancient water in fictional fountains : waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances / Terése Nilsson

The Shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege / Isabel Kimmelfield

A dome for the water : canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople / Federica Broilo

Sinan's ablution fountains / Johan Mårtelius.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107105997

1107105994

OCLC:

947953958

Publisher Number:

99970219860