Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium

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Introduction Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson
1. Where do we go now? The archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East Julian Richard
2. Monumental waterworks in Late Antique Constantinople Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund
3. Fistulae and water fraud in Late Antique Constantinople Gerda de Kleijn
4. The Silahtarağa statues in context Brenda Longfellow
5. The bronze goose from the hippodrome Rowena Loverance
6. The serpent column fountain Paul Stephenson
7. The culture of water in the 'Macedonian Renaissance' Paul Magdalino
8. When bath became church: spatial fusion in Late Antique Constantinople and beyond Jesper Blid Kullberg
9. Zoomorphic rainwater spouts Philipp Niewöhner
10. Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound Eunice Dauterman Maguire
11. Fountains of paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns Brooke Shilling
12. Where did the waters of paradise go after iconoclasm? Henry Maguire
13. 'Rejoice, Spring.' The Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography Helena Bodin
14. Words, water, and power: literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Ingela Nilsson
15. Ancient water in fictional fountains: waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances Terése Nilsson
16. The shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege Isabel Kimmelfield
17. A dome for the water: canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople Federica Broilo
18. Sinan's ablution fountains Johan Mårtelius.

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