Conférence
Notice
Lieu de réalisation
IEA de Paris
Langue :
Anglais
Crédits
Vanessa Van Renterghem (Intervention), Maaike van Berkel (Intervention), Hugh Kennedy (Intervention)
Conditions d'utilisation
Droit commun de la propriété intellectuelle
Citer cette ressource :
Vanessa Van Renterghem, Maaike van Berkel, Hugh Kennedy. IEA de Paris. (2022, 8 avril). sources of life. food and water sustainability in abbasid baghdad. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/136506. (Consultée le 15 juin 2024)

sources of life. food and water sustainability in abbasid baghdad

Réalisation : 8 avril 2022 - Mise en ligne : 15 janvier 2023
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Descriptif

Managing access to clean water and large quantities of grain and other foodstuffs was essential for the development of an exceedingly large city such as Baghdad under the Abbasids. With half a million or more inhabitants this was not an easy task. Still we do not fully understand how this was achieved. Existing historical approaches still often frame the institutional arrangements of Middle Eastern cities in relation to the premodern European city and emphasize the institutional weakness of the former. Yet how, then, did these cities support their numerous populations under challenging circumstances? In this combined presentation Hugh Kennedy will discuss the availability of river transport while Maaike van Berkel investigates the multiple water systems that functioned in Abbasid Baghdad and the source(s) of their sustainability.

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