Table of Contents

Introduction Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott



Part One: Gender Roles, Attitudes, Practices, and innovations in Baths and Bathing

River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity Rabun Taylor



Archimedes, the North Baths at Morgantina, and Early Developments in Vaulted Construction Sandra K. Lucore

Female Bathers and the Emergence of the Female Nude in greek Art Robert F. Sutton J.

Women at the Fountain and the Well: Imagining Experience Cynthia K. Kosso and Kevin Lawton

“Take, Skamandros, My Virginity”: Ideas of Water in Connection with Rites of Passage in Greece, Modern and Ancient Evy Johanne Haland

Bath, Scrubs, and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon de Vallambert (1564) Helene Cazes

Polemicizing Women’s Bathing Among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians Alexandra Cuffel



Part Two: Water and the Formation of Identity and Policy

Earth and Water: The Foundations of sovereignty in Ancient Thought Mark Munn

The Legacy of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains in Greece Brenda Longfellow

The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity and the Image of Tiberinus Gretchen E. Meyers

Cisterns in the Astynomoi Law from Pergamon Sara Saba

“We and Thode Waters of the Sea Are One” Baptism, Bathing, and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia Scott John McDonough



Part Three: Ancient and Medieval Water Sources and Resources

Natural Water Resources and the Sacred Attica Etienne Dunant

“Beautiful and Useful”: The Water Supply of Pisidian Antioch and the Development of the Roman Colony E.J. Owens and Dr. Mehmet Tashalan

Running Water: Advances in Urban Water Supply during the Roman Empire Deborah Chatr Aryamontri

Villas and Aquatic Culture in Late Roman Spain John W. Stephenson

The Hydrologic Cycle in Bede’s De Natura Rerum, Lin Ferrand



Part Four: Religious and Literary Imagery: Water in Medieval Through Early Modern Cultures

Come Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic Romance, Allegory and Fabliau Anne Scott

Magical Fountains in Middle English Romance Misty Rae Urban

Sea Change in Shakespeare’s Othello, Ruth Stevenson

From Spiritual Necessity to Instrument of Torture: Water in the Middle Ages Charles W. Connell

The “Water of Thomas Becket”: Water as Medium, Metaphor, and Rhelic Alyce A. Jordan

“Almost Miraculous”: Lord North and the Healing Waters of Tunbridge Wells Ronald W. Cooley

Waters of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy on the Gardens of Spain and New Spain Irene Matthews



Index

About the Author

Cynthia K. Kosso, Ph.D. (1993) History and Classics from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at Northern Arizona University. She is author of The Archaeology of Public Policy in Late Roman Greece (2003). She co-edited, with A. Scott, Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002).



Anne Scott, Ph.D. (1988) in Literature, Brown University, is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Honors Program at Northern Arizona University. She has published on Chaucer, medieval romances, and saints’ legends. She has also co-edited, with C. Kosso, a volume of interdisciplinary essays on fear in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002) and is, with Kosso, completing a co-edited volume on poverty and prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (forthcoming)