Abstract: This collection shows how, between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, the gradual desacralization of springs and fountains was at the origin of a new imaginary of water. The subject’s different facets are explored: hydraulic science, architecture, urbanism, music, literature, religion, and painting.
Series: Symposiums, seminars, and conferences on the European Renaissance, n° 12
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
EAN:9782406089032
ISBN:978-2-406-08903-2
ISSN: 2103-5636
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-099-8
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-28-2007
Language: French
Keyword: Immortality, burning fountain, anthropology, pastoral, mixed waters, demonology, Jean de La Fontaine, marvelous, mythology, literature of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries
