Digging the dirt in the pursuit of cleanliness -- Advice. Manners and health -- Clothing and disease -- Clean bodies -- Practice. Wearing linens -- Owning linens -- Manufacturing linens -- Sewing linens -- Washing linens -- More washing -- Washing bodies -- Sweet and clean
Summary
"How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bodies and scrubbing of clothes in early modern England."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource: title from resource home page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 8, 2022)