Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Place and Its People
- Part II Practical Matters
- 4: Waters for a Capital: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Use in Byzantine Constantinople
- 5: The Supply of Food to Constantinople
- 6: Constantinople: Building and Maintenance
- 7: The Defence of Constantinople
- Part III Urban Experiences
- Part IV Institutions and Activities
- Part V Encountering Constantinople
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- References
4: - Waters for a Capital: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Use in Byzantine Constantinople
from Part II - Practical Matters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Place and Its People
- Part II Practical Matters
- 4: Waters for a Capital: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Use in Byzantine Constantinople
- 5: The Supply of Food to Constantinople
- 6: Constantinople: Building and Maintenance
- 7: The Defence of Constantinople
- Part III Urban Experiences
- Part IV Institutions and Activities
- Part V Encountering Constantinople
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- References
Summary
Chapter 4, “Waters for the Capital: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Use in Byzantine Constantinople,” provides an overview of the history of water supply and distribution to Constantinople, discussing the construction and maintenance of hydraulic infrastructure and its importance in determining the ways in which the city grew and developed.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 67 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
Altuğ, K., “Reconsidering the Use of Spolia in Byzantine Constantinople,” in Di Bisanzio dirai ciò che è passato, ciò che passa e che sarà: Scritti in onore di Alessandra Guiglia, ed. Pedone, Silvia and Paribeni, Andrea (Rome, 2018), 3–16.Google Scholar
Crow, J., “The Imagined Water Supply of Constantinople, New Approaches” TM 22.1 (2018): 211–36.Google Scholar
Crow, J., Bardill, J. and Bayliss, R., The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople (London, 2008).Google Scholar
Forchheimer, P. and Strzygowski, J., Die byzantinischen Wasserbehälter von Konstantinopel (Vienna, 1893).Google Scholar
Magdalino, P., “The Culture of Water in the ‘Macedonian Renaissance’,” in Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium, ed. Shilling, B. and Stephenson, P. (Cambridge, 2016), 130–44.Google Scholar
Mango, C., “The Water Supply of Constantinople,” in Constantinople and Its Hinterland, ed. Mango, C. and Dagron, G. (Aldershot, 1995), 9–18.Google Scholar
Snyder, R. J., “Manipulating the Environment: The Impact of the Construction of the Water Supply of Constantinople,” in A Most Pleasant Scene and an Inexhaustible Resource? Steps Towards Environmental History of the Byzantine Empire, ed. Baron, H., and Daim, F. (Mainz, 2017), 169–85.Google Scholar
Ward, K., Crapper, M., Altuğ, K., and Crow, J., “The Byzantine Cisterns of Constantinople,” Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 17.6 (2017): 1499–506.Google Scholar
Ward, K., Crow, J. and Crapper, M., “Water-Supply Infrastructure of Byzantine Constantinople,” JRA 30 (2017): 175–95.Google Scholar