shutsumon (shutsumon) wrote in specficwriters, @ 2008-04-27 00:09:00 |
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Weird Worldbuilding Research Question
Crossposting from my personal IJ in an attempt to wake the community up since it's been dead a while.
So there's this "fact" that I've known since I was a kid. I think I got it from one of my parents that they had Gas Lighting in Islamic Spain in the medieval period. So I'm worldbuilding and I think that would be a good addition to my setting but I want to check details so I consult google to get them and check I'm not mis-remembering.
I don't think I am since I found two references to gaslights in Medieval Córdoba. Both are buried in the text.
An article about a documentary called Cities of light states:
In one of the many striking images of Cities of Light, the camera glories in this mosque's towering Arabesque arches and crisscrossing vaults, decorated with glass tessarae brought from Greek Byzantium. Muslim palaces had running water and gas lighting not just indoors, but along prominent streets.
While Europe suffered the Dark Ages, Córdoba came to possess half a million citizens, seven hundred mosques, the first gas streetlights in Europe, three hundred public baths...