https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/8a80f15e649b83010cffe99d5a7172fb.jpg aac93186abd4ab837e27bc3d5a9a05d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fisherman on the shores of the Tiber. Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Working on the Tiber Description An account of the resource In the medieval city of Rome, the Tiber River was an important part of the economic and everyday life. It was used as the major water source, a valuable transportation center, and also the production center for several industries that were restricted by law to the area around the Tiber for reasons such as the repellant smell and the low prestige of such work. As a consequence, people of lower economic status lived and worked near the river. Life along the Tiber was not an easy one for many reasons. Before the walls surrounding the river were built in 1870, floods were quite frequent around the river. Every time the river flooded, workers' jobs which were located on and around the Tiber would be severely impacted. Fishing platforms and mills, which were owned by richer families and institutions and leased out to millers and fishermen in exchange for a portion of their income, would be almost fully destroyed. Since the less prosperous people could not afford to rebuild their businesses immediately after the floods, life of a worker along the Tiber was not an easy one. Some of the most popular jobs in Borgo near the Tiber were held by tanners, fishermen, ferry-men, millers, dyers, laundresses and water-sellers. None of these jobs paid as well as more prestigious jobs that were allowed near the city center such as printing and weaving. A few of the major jobs such as washing laundry and selling water were gendered. For example, laundry businesses were usually held by women while water-sellers were mostly men, except for a few exceptions such as the mother of Cola di Rienzo, Matalena by name, who was both a water-seller and a laundress. Even though the working class of Rome did not receive much support from the rich families and institutions of Rome, there was still some form of protection by the Papacy. The Papacy, for instance, passed a law that banned men and prostitutes from bathing near the bend of the Tiber, such as the beach adjacent to the Hospital of Santo Spirito due to the laundresses who worked, as laundresses usually worked here. In the late 16th century, after the construction of aqueducts and laundry fountains throughout the city, fewer people depended on the Tiber for their businesses. However, the Tiber continued to be an important part of life in Rome as many Romans considered the Tiber’s water to be the best water of Europe, and many laundresses carried on washing their laundry on their usual platforms by the river. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alperen Turkol (2018) Edited by Tim Abbott (2026) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rinne, Katherine Wentworth. The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Bianchi, L. “Medieval Survivals in Modern Rome. ” Transactions on the Built Environment 9(1999): 441-450. Palmer, James A. 2021. “The Great Deeds of Cola Di Rienzo, August Tribune of Rome.” In The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman. Rome, Italy, and Latin Christendom, c.1325-1360. Italica Press, Inc.<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t8q8mk.24"> https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t8q8mk.24</a>. p. 183. Image Nieulandt, Willem van, II, 1579-1641. Courtesy of the Getty Museum. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context workingtiber_2017 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1600s Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Borgo Santo Spirito, 1, 00193 Roma RM, Italy borgo Tiber Unsure on details workers