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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium (Paperback)
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Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium (Paperback)
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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.
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