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The nature and function of water, baths, bathing, and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance /

The nature and function of water, baths, bathing, and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance / edited by Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Technology and Change in History 11. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222854. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Materials / Introduction / River Raptures: Containment And Control Of Water In Greek And Roman Constructions Of Identity / Archimedes, The North Baths At Morgantina, And Early Developments In Vaulted Construction / Female Bathers And The Emergence Of The Female Nude In Greek Art / Women At The Fountain And The Well: Imagining Experience / “Take, Skamandros, My Virginity”: Ideas Of Water In Connection With Rites Of Passage In Greece, Modern And Ancient / Baths, Scrubs, And Cuddles: How To Bathe Young Infants According To Simon De Vallambert (1564) / Polemicizing Women’s Bathing Among Medieval And Early Modern Muslims And Christians / Earth And Water: The Foundations Of Sovereignty In Ancient Thought / The Legacy Of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains In Greece / The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity And The Image Of Tiberinus / Cisterns In The Astynomoi Law From Pergamon / “We And Those Waters Of The Sea Are One”: Baptism, Bathing, And The Construction Of Identity In Late Ancient Babylonia / Natural Water Resources And The Sacred In Attica / “Beautiful And Useful”: The Water Supply Of Pisidian Antioch And The Development Of The Roman Colony / Running Water: Advances In Urban Water Supply During The Roman Empire / Villas And Aquatic Culture In Late Roman Spain / The Hydrologic Cycle In Bede’s De Natura Rerum / The Challenge For A Medieval Center Of Industrial Growth: Ypres And The Drinking-Water Problem / Come Hell Or High Water: Aqueous Moments In Medieval Epic, Romance, Allegory, And Fabliau / Magical Fountains In Middle English Romance / Sea Change In Shakespeare’s Othello / From Spiritual Necessity To Instrument Of Torture: Water In The Middle Ages / The “Water Of Thomas Becket”: Water As Medium, Metaphor, And Relic / “Almost Miraculous”: Lord North And The Healing Waters Of Tunbridge Wells / Waters Of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy On The Gardens Of Spain And New Spain / Index / C. Kosso and A. Scott -- Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott -- Rabun Taylor -- Sandra K. Lucore -- Robert F. Sutton, Jr. -- Cynthia K. Kosso and Kevin Lawton -- Evy Johanne Håland -- Hélène Cazes -- Alexandra Cuffel -- Mark Munn -- Brenda Longfellow -- Gretchen E. Meyers -- Sara Saba -- Scott John Mcdonough -- Etienne Dunant -- E.J. Owens and Dr. Mehmet Taşlialan -- Deborah Chatr Aryamontri -- John W. Stephenson -- Lin Ferrand -- Paul Trio -- Anne Scott -- Misty Rae Urban -- Ruth Stevenson -- Charles W. Connell -- Alyce A. Jordan -- Ronald W. Cooley -- Irene Matthews -- C. Kosso and A. Scott.

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These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne Håland, Hélène Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens , Mehmet Taşlıalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.

9789047427032

10.1163/ej.9789004173576.i-538 DOI

2008053613


Bathing customs--History.--Europe
Baths--History.--Europe
Hygiene--History.--Europe
Water and civilization.
Water use--History.--Europe
Water--History.--Europe


Europe--Civilization.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Social life and customs.

CB482 / .N38 2009

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