Water in the City

The Aqueducts and Underground Passages of Exeter
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-85989-877-5
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 277 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 1258 g

The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England, possessing a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance.  Among the most impressive of these was its highly sophisticated system of public water supply, including a unique network of underground passages.  Most of these ancient passages still survive today.

Water in the City provides a richly illustrated history of Exeter's famous underground passages—and of Exeter’s system of public water supply during the medieval and early modern periods. Illustrated with full colour throughout, Mark Stoyle shows how and why the passages and aqueducts were originally built, considers the technologies that were used in their construction, explains how they were funded and maintained, and reveals the various ways in which the water fountains were used and abused by the townsfolk.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoyle, Mark

Stoyle, Mark, Prof.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations  

Acknowledgments

Glossary of archaic words and phrases used in the text and documents

Abbreviations                                                                                               1        Introduction

Part I: The History of Exeter’s Underground Passages and Aqueduct Systems

2        The Aqueducts of Medieval Exeter, 1226-1420             

3        The Development of the New Conduit, 1420-1536         

4        After the Dissolution of the Monasteries                          

5        The City Aqueducts under the Early Stuarts                    

6        After the Restoration                                                        

Part II: The Life of the City Aqueducts

7        The Role of the Aqueducts in Exeter’s daily life              

Part III: Documents relating to the City Aqueducts

The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts               

1.       Extracts from the City Receivers’ Accounts, 1424-1603 

2.       ‘Outgoings for making of Exeter’s New Conduit’, 1441 

3.       Account of Work on the Great Conduit, 1534-35            

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stoyle, Mark, Prof.
Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.

Mark Stoyle grew up in rural mid-Devon, and worked for some years as an archaeologist in Exeter after leaving school.  He was awarded his D. Phil by the University of Oxford in 1992, and is currently Professor of early modern History at the University of Southampton.  He has written many books and articles on religion and politics in Tudor and Stuart Britain, and his particular research interests include: the English Civil War, the history of witchcraft, the history of the early modern town and the history of the South West.  Professor Stoyle is a member of the Council of the Royal Historical Society, and sits on the editorial advisory panel of BBC History Magazine; he has also appeared on dozens of TV and Radio programmes, including 'Who Do You Think You Are?', 'The Great British Story', 'Making History', 'Word of Mouth' and 'The Roots of English'.