| Description |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in Roman space and urbanism |
| Contents |
Chapter One: Water and Urbanism -- Introduction -- Water and 20th century Approaches to Roman Urbanism -- Justifying Water Networks -- The Strange Water of Prehistoric Temperate Europe -- Water and Hybrid Urban Identity -- Chapter Two: Discovering Hybridity in Classical Accounts of Municipal Water -- Introduction: Meaning-laden Roman Water -- An Entangled Source -- Wells and Springs -- Sourcing an Aqueduct -- Building Rivers: Hybrid Waterflow -- The Hybrid Baths -- Healing Water -- Sacred Water -- Communal and Political Water -- Hybrid Urban Water Networks -- Chapter Three: Water in Roman Britain -- Introduction: Establishing a Context for Water -- Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) -- St Albans (Verulamium) -- London (Londinium) -- Silchester (Calleva Artebatum) -- Dorchester (Durnovaria) -- Wroxeter (Viroconium) -- Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum) -- Colchester (Camulodunum/Colonia Claudia Victricensis) -- Chichester (Noviomagus) -- Winchester (Venta Belgarum) -- Canterbury (Durovernum) -- York (Eboracum) -- Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) -- Caerwent (Venta Silurum) -- Other Towns -- Manipulating Urban Identities: Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Water Supply -- Chapter Four: The Value of Water and New Approaches to Urban Space -- Introduction -- Water and Hybridity in the Mediterranean -- Hybrid Motivations and Functions for Water Supply in Britain -- Incoming Motivations -- Ancestral Landscapes -- Finding Water and Creating Communities -- Stranger Things: Defamiliarising Roman Urbanism in Britain -- Changing Environmental Conditions and Urban Waterscapes -- Water and the Identity of Our Urban Future |
| Summary |
The establishment of large-scale water infrastructure is a defining aspect of the process of urbanisation. In places like Britain, the Roman period represents the first introduction of features that can be recognised and paralleled to our modern water networks. Writers have regularly cast these innovations as markers of a uniform Roman identity spreading throughout the Empire, and bringing with it a familiar, modern, sense of what constitutes civilised urban living. However, this is a view that has often neglected to explain how such developments were connected to the important symbolic and ritual traditions of waterscapes in Iron Age Britain. Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain argues that the creation of Roman water infrastructure forged a meaningful entanglement between the process of urbanisation and significant local landscape contexts. As a result, it suggests that archetypal Roman urban water features were often more related to an active expression of local hybrid identities, rather than alignment to an incoming continental ideal. By questioning the familiarity of these aspects of the ancient urban form, we can move away from the unhelpful idea that Roman precedent is a central tenet of the current unsustainable relationship between water and our modern cities. This monograph will be of interest to academics and students studying aspects of Roman water management, urbanisation in Roman Britain, and theoretical approaches to landscape. It will also appeal to those working more generally on past human interactions with the natural world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Jay Ingate is currently a sessional lecturer at the Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Kent, UK in 2014. He has written articles on the interpretation of aqueducts in Roman Britain, the development of Roman London's waterscape, and Post-Human approaches to the Roman world |
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Print version record |
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Municipal water supply -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Urbanization -- England -- History -- To 1500
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Municipal water supply
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Urbanization
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Great Britain -- History -- To 449.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056721
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018057953 |
| ISBN |
9781351797849 |
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1351797840 |
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9781351797825 |
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1351797824 |
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9781351797832 |
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1351797832 |
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9781315206707 |
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1315206706 |
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