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

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 gen...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kosso, Cynthia, Scott, Anne, 1958-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:Technology and change in history ; v. 11.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 538 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047427032
9047427033
1282602616
9781282602618
ISSN:1385-920X ;

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