Title Sweet and clean? : bodies and clothes in early modern England / Susan North

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 341 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Contents 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) Subject Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Bathing customs -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Hygiene -- England -- History -- 17th century Medicine -- History -- 17th century. Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Hygiene -- history Clothing -- history Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice History, 17th Century History, 18th Century Hygiene Bathing customs Clothing and dress SUBJECT England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 Subject Great Britain Europe England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192598202 0192598201 9780192598219 019259821X 9780191889639 0191889636

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