Lindsay J. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University at Stark. She specializes in early modern European history, and has published pieces in >Explorations in Renaissance Culture>, >Culture and Cosmos>, >Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme>, and >Preternature>.

• Introduction: Why Water? Chapter 1: Athens and Jerusalem on Water, Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts from circa 1000-1600, Chapter 2: Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts, Chapter 3: Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts, Chapter 4: Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts, Part II: Why Water, Chapter 5: Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts, Chapter 6: Exploring the Created Universe through Water, Chapter 7: Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship, Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis, Bibliography, Index.

Lindsay J. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University at Stark. She specializes in early modern European history, and has published pieces in >Explorations in Renaissance Culture>, >Culture and Cosmos>, >Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme>, and >Preternature>.

• Introduction: Why Water? Chapter 1: Athens and Jerusalem on Water, Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts from circa 1000-1600, Chapter 2: Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts, Chapter 3: Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts, Chapter 4: Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts, Part II: Why Water, Chapter 5: Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts, Chapter 6: Exploring the Created Universe through Water, Chapter 7: Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship, Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis, Bibliography, Index.

Lindsay J. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University at Stark. She specializes in early modern European history, and has published pieces in >Explorations in Renaissance Culture>, >Culture and Cosmos>, >Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme>, and >Preternature>.

• Introduction: Why Water? Chapter 1: Athens and Jerusalem on Water, Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts from circa 1000-1600, Chapter 2: Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts, Chapter 3: Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts, Chapter 4: Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts, Part II: Why Water, Chapter 5: Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts, Chapter 6: Exploring the Created Universe through Water, Chapter 7: Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship, Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis, Bibliography, Index.