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ONLINE

1st ed.

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020

1 online resource (280 pages)

ISBN 9783110677065 (electronic bk.)

Print version: Chiarenza, Nicola The Power of Urban Water Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2020

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Nature to Topography -- 3. Fountains and the Ancient City -- 4. Water, Social Space and Architecture at Selinous: the Case of the Urban Sanctuary -- 5. Fountains and Basins in Greek Sanctuaries -- 6. Water in Early Christian Ritual: Baptism and Baptisteries in Corinth -- 7. Aquatic Pasts & -- amp -- the Watery Present: Water and Memory in the Fora of Rome -- 8. Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity -- 9. Water and Urban Structures in the Narrative Worlds of Courtly Novels − Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions -- 10. Syracusan Water Networks in Antiquity -- 11. Meeting Water Needs as a Major Challenge in an Urban Context -- 12. Ice Jams and their Impact on Urban Communities from a Long-term Perspective (Middle Ages to the 19< -- sup> -- th< -- /sup> -- Century) -- 13. Medieval and Post-Medieval Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 14. Harbourscapes -- 15. Human Impact on Hydrology -- 16. Water as an Economic Resource and as an Environmental Challenge Within the Urbanisation Process of the Rhine Valley in the 13< -- sup> -- th< -- /sup> -- Century -- List of Contributors.

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