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oapen-20.500.12657-401392022-04-11T15:01:54Z The Power of Urban Water Chiarenza, Nicola Haug, Annette Müller, Ulrich Water; Urbanity bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDK Classical Greek & Roman archaeology Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times. 2020-07-28T18:59:57Z 2020-07-28T18:59:57Z 2020 book ONIX_20200728_9783110677065_31 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40139 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783110677065.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter 10.1515/978311067706 10.1515/978311067706 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 De Gruyter 280 open access
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Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.
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