Description |
1 online resource (viii, 538 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Technology and change in history, 1385-920X ; v. 11 |
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Technology and change in history ; v. 11.
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Contents |
PART THREE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WATER SOURCES AND RESOURCES; Introduction -- Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott; PART ONE GENDER ROLES, ATTITUDES, PRACTICES, AND INNOVATIONS IN BATHS AND BATHING; River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity -- Rabun Taylor; Archimedes, the North Baths at Morgantina, and Early Developments in Vaulted Construction -- Sandra K. Lucore; Female Bathers and the Emergence of the Female Nude in Greek Art -- Robert F. Sutton, Jr |
Summary |
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 cre |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Water and civilization
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Water -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
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Water use -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
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Baths -- Europe -- History
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Bathing customs -- Europe -- History
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Hygiene -- Europe -- History
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Water.
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Baths -- history
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History, Ancient
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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History, Medieval
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Hygiene -- history
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Water
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Water Supply -- history
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water (inorganic material)
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HISTORY.
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Water
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Medicine, Medieval
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Bathing customs
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Baths
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Civilization
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Hygiene
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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Water and civilization
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Water -- Social aspects
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Water use -- Social aspects
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Hygiene
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Wassernutzung
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Bad
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Sanitäranlage -- Geschichte.
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Hygiene -- Geschichte.
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Bad -- Geschichte.
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Wasser -- Geschichte.
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Wasser.
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Nutzung.
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Hygiene.
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760
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Europe -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
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Europe -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
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Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
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Europe |
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Europe
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Europa
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Europa.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kosso, Cynthia
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Scott, Anne, 1958-
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ISBN |
9789047427032 |
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9047427033 |
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1282602616 |
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9781282602618 |
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