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Author | : Katherine Wentworth Rinne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Aqueducts |
ISBN | : 9780300155303 |
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In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Supported by the author’s extensive topographical research, this book presents a unified vision of the city that links improvements to public and private water systems with political, religious, and social change. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome’s religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ceremonial fountains that are Rome’s glory. Tying together the technological, sociopolitical, and artistic questions that faced the designers during an age of turmoil in which the Catholic Church found its authority threatened and the infrastructure of the city was in a state of decay, Rinne shows how these public works projects transformed Rome in a successful marriage of innovative engineering and strategic urban planning.
Author | : Henry Vollam Morton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Fountains |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rabun M. Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2016-09-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1107013992 |
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This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history. It examines the processes by which Rome's leaders have shaped its urban fabric by organizing space, planning infrastructure, designing ritual, controlling populations, and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.
Author | : Gregory S. Aldrete |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801884054 |
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Author | : Brian Campbell |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2012-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080786904X |
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Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.
Author | : Henry Vollam Morton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Fountains |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harry B. Evans |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472084463 |
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Explores the water system that made ancient Rome possible
Author | : G. de Kleijn |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004502300 |
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Kleijn, G. de The Water Supply of Ancient Rome. City Area, Water, and Population. 2001 The Aqua Appia (312 BC) was the first of the eleven aqueducts leading to Rome to be built in antiquity. Time and again, the volume of water brought into the city was increased through the construction of new aqueducts. Rome’s population and the extent of its built-up area also changed over time. This study examines how data derived from our knowledge of the urban water supply in antiquity may help answering questions about the urban social fabric and topography. DMAHA 22 (2001), 365 p. Cloth. - 68.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050632688
Author | : Susan Raven |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113489239X |
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Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, TUrks, French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of Africa for six hundred cities, twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aquaducts, some fifty miles long. The remains of many of these structures can be seen today. At the height of its prosperity, during the second and third centuries AD, the area was the granary of Rome, and produced more olive oil than Italy itself. The broadening horizons of the Roman Empire provided scope for the particular talents of a number of Africa's sons: the writers Terence and Apuleius; the first African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, famous Christian theologians like Tertulllian and Saint Augustine - these are just some who rose to meet the challenges of their age.
Author | : Cynthia Jordan Bannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Riparian rights (Roman law). |
ISBN | : 9780472037865 |
Download A Casebook on Roman Water Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Engaging study of key issues in Roman water regulation from legal and environmental history, both ancient and modern