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dc.contributor.editorChiarenza, Nicola
dc.contributor.editorHaug, Annette
dc.contributor.editorMüller, Ulrich
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-28T18:59:57Z
dc.date.available2020-07-28T18:59:57Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20200728_9783110677065_31
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40139
dc.description.abstractWater 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.     
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / regionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBA Ancient Worlden_US
dc.subject.otherWater; Urbanity
dc.titleThe Power of Urban Water
dc.title.alternativeStudies in Premodern Urbanism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/978311067706
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3
oapen.imprintDe Gruyter
oapen.pages280


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