UID:
almahu_9949701023102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047427032
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2009
Content:
These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne Håland, Hélène Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens , Mehmet Taşlıalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.
Note:
Preliminary Materials /
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Introduction /
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River Raptures: Containment And Control Of Water In Greek And Roman Constructions Of Identity /
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Archimedes, The North Baths At Morgantina, And Early Developments In Vaulted Construction /
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Female Bathers And The Emergence Of The Female Nude In Greek Art /
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Women At The Fountain And The Well: Imagining Experience /
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"Take, Skamandros, My Virginity": Ideas Of Water In Connection With Rites Of Passage In Greece, Modern And Ancient /
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Baths, Scrubs, And Cuddles: How To Bathe Young Infants According To Simon De Vallambert (1564) /
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Polemicizing Women's Bathing Among Medieval And Early Modern Muslims And Christians /
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Earth And Water: The Foundations Of Sovereignty In Ancient Thought /
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The Legacy Of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains In Greece /
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The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity And The Image Of Tiberinus /
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Cisterns In The Astynomoi Law From Pergamon /
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"We And Those Waters Of The Sea Are One": Baptism, Bathing, And The Construction Of Identity In Late Ancient Babylonia /
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Natural Water Resources And The Sacred In Attica /
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"Beautiful And Useful": The Water Supply Of Pisidian Antioch And The Development Of The Roman Colony /
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Running Water: Advances In Urban Water Supply During The Roman Empire /
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Villas And Aquatic Culture In Late Roman Spain /
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The Hydrologic Cycle In Bede's De Natura Rerum /
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The Challenge For A Medieval Center Of Industrial Growth: Ypres And The Drinking-Water Problem /
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Come Hell Or High Water: Aqueous Moments In Medieval Epic, Romance, Allegory, And Fabliau /
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Magical Fountains In Middle English Romance /
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Sea Change In Shakespeare's Othello /
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From Spiritual Necessity To Instrument Of Torture: Water In The Middle Ages /
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The "Water Of Thomas Becket": Water As Medium, Metaphor, And Relic /
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"Almost Miraculous": Lord North And The Healing Waters Of Tunbridge Wells /
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Waters Of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy On The Gardens Of Spain And New Spain /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Nature and function of water, baths, bathing, and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance ISBN 9789004173576 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004173579 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Language:
English
