Title The nature and function of water, baths, bathing, and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance / edited by Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 538 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Technology and change in history, 1385-920X ; v. 11 Technology and change in history ; v. 11. 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 Water -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History Water use -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History Baths -- Europe -- History Bathing customs -- Europe -- History Hygiene -- Europe -- History Medicine, Medieval. Water. Baths -- history History, Ancient History, Early Modern 1451-1600 History, Medieval Hygiene -- history Water Water Supply -- history water (inorganic material) HISTORY. Water Medicine, Medieval Bathing customs Baths Civilization Hygiene Intellectual life Manners and customs Water and civilization Water -- Social aspects Water use -- Social aspects Hygiene Wassernutzung Bad Sanitäranlage -- Geschichte. Hygiene -- Geschichte. Bad -- Geschichte. Wasser -- Geschichte. Wasser. Nutzung. Hygiene. SUBJECT Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760 Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637 Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726 Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe Subject Europe Europa Europa. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kosso, Cynthia Scott, Anne, 1958- ISBN 9789047427032 9047427033 1282602616 9781282602618

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