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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

Sarah Bassett
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Indiana University
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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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Print publication year: 2022

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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), 316.Google Scholar
Çeçen, K., The Longest Roman Water Supply Line (Istanbul, 1996).Google Scholar
Crow, J., “The Imagined Water Supply of Constantinople, New ApproachesTM 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), 918.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

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