Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania / / Javier Martinez Jiménez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Martinez Jiménez, Javier,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)

Our current knowledge of Roman aqueducts across the Empire is patchy and uneven. Even if the development of "aqueduct studies" (where engineering, archaeology, architecture, hydraulics, and other disciplines converge) in recent years has improved this situation, one of the aspects which has been generally left aside is the chronology of their late antique phases and of their abandonment. In the Iberian peninsula, there is to date, no general overview of the Roman aqueducts, and all the available information is distributed across various publications, which as expected, hardly mention the late phases. This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Preliminary notes -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Urban water supply: aqueducts and more beyond the Roman period -- Aqueducts, infrastructure and urbanism -- Aqueducts and their socio-political importance in Late Antiquity -- Conclusions -- Catalogue: functioning aqueducts in the late antique Iberian Peninsula -- Appendix: Aqueducts and urbanism in post-Roman Tingitania -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Inscriptions