Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

ISBN-13: 9781107513884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 415 str.

Brooke Shilling; Paul Stephenson

Opis

This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.

Spis treści

Introduction Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson; 1. Where do we go now? The archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East Julian Richard; 2. Monumental waterworks in Late Antique Constantinople Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund; 3. Fistulae and water fraud in Late Antique Constantinople Gerda de Kleijn; 4. The Silahtarağa statues in context Brenda Longfellow; 5. The bronze goose from the hippodrome Rowena Loverance; 6. The serpent column fountain Paul Stephenson; 7. The culture of water in the 'Macedonian Renaissance' Paul Magdalino; 8. When bath became church: spatial fusion in Late Antique Constantinople and beyond Jesper Blid Kullberg; 9. Zoomorphic rainwater spouts Philipp Niewöhner; 10. Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound Eunice Dauterman Maguire; 11. Fountains of paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns Brooke Shilling; 12. Where did the waters of paradise go after iconoclasm? Henry Maguire; 13. 'Rejoice, Spring.' The Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography Helena Bodin; 14. Words, water, and power: literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Ingela Nilsson; 15. Ancient water in fictional fountains: waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances Terése Nilsson; 16. The shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege Isabel Kimmelfield; 17. A dome for the water: canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople Federica Broilo; 18. Sinan's ablution fountains Johan Mårtelius.