Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain 1st Edition by Jay Ingate, ISBN-13: 978-1032178271

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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain 1st Edition by Jay Ingate, ISBN-13: 978-1032178271

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• Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (September 30, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• 232 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1032178272
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1032178271

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.

Table of Contents:

Cover Page

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1 Water and urbanism

Introduction

Water and twentieth-century approaches to Roman urbanism

Justifying water networks

Modern water supply and the urban setting

The strange water of prehistoric temperate Europe

Water and hybrid urban identity

2 Hybridity in classical accounts of urban water

Meaning-laden Roman water

An entangled source

Building rivers: hybrid water flow

The hybrid baths

Hybrid urban water networks

3 Water in Roman Britain

Establishing a context for water

Lincoln (Lindum Colonia)

St Albans (Verulamium)

London (Londinium)

Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)

Dorchester (Durnovaria)

Wroxeter (Viroconium)

Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum)

Colchester (Camulodunum/Colonia Claudia Victricensis)

Chichester (Noviomagus)

Winchester (Venta Belgarum)

Canterbury (Durovernum)

Cirencester (Corinium)

York (Eboracum)

Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum)

Caerwent (Venta Silurum)

Other towns

Manipulating urban identities: multidimensional approaches to water supply

4 The value of water and new approaches to urban space

Water and hybridity in the Mediterranean

Hybrid motivations and functions for water supply in Britain

Stranger things: defamiliarising Roman urbanism in Britain

Changing environmental conditions and urban waterscapes

Water and the identity of our urban future

Conclusions

References

Index

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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