Technology, Ideology, Water: From Frontinus to the Renaissance and Beyond

Contents: Christer Bruun, Introduction: Tradition and Innovation; Ari Saastamoinen, The Literary Character of Frontinus 'De aquaeductu'; Christer Bruun, Frontinus and the "Nachleben" of his De aquaeductu from Antiquity to the Baroque; Robert Coates-Stephens, The Water-supply of Early Medieval Rome; Andrew I. Wilson, Classical Water Technology in the Early Islamic World; André Bazzana, Approvisionnements hydriques et maîtrise de l'eau dans al-Andalus du X au XV siècle; Klaus Grewe, Technologie-Transfer von der Antike in das Mittelalter am Beispiel der Wasserversorgung; Lucio Riccetti, Orvieto e l'acqua nel Medioevo. Propaganda technica maestranze; Giuliana Fantoni, Tradizione e innovazione nel governo delle acque a Milano nel secolo XV; Meri Vuohu, Water Supply as Part of Urban Hygiene in Fifteenth-century Treatises on Architecture; Leonardo Lombardi, L'ingegneria idraulica romana rivisitata in epoca rinascimentale e barocca.