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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Water for everyday use -- The supply: aqueducts and their water -- The supply: wells, cisterns, and springs -- The demand: domestic water usage -- 2 Water, baths, and corporeal washing -- The perpetuation of public baths -- The social world of the baths -- Habits of the bath -- The bath from collective nudity to domestic solitude -- Bathless washing -- 3 The wet and the dry: water in agriculture -- Floods, drainage, marshes, and mentalities -- Drainage -- Irrigation -- 4 Water, fish, and fishing -- The Roman heritage -- The new fishing patterns -- The rise of private fishing rights -- The administration of fishing -- Early medieval fisheries and their techniques -- The fishers -- 5 Water and milling in early medieval Italy -- Technologies of milling with water -- Water power and social power -- The ownership of mills -- Mill income -- Watermillers -- 6 Conclusion: the hydrological cycle in the early Middle Ages -- Bibliography -- Index