The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7534522
AutoresAnne Scott (0000-0003-4396-438X), Anne Firor Scott (autor de correspondencia), Cynthia Kosso
Año2009
Páginas538
Fecha de publicación2009-03-25
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaNature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004173576.i-538
OpenAlexW1512538253
Open LibraryOL22842963M
ISBN9789004173576
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21

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 created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne Håland, Hélène Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens , Mehmet Taşlıalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Bathing · Identity (music · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Renaissance · Classics · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Ancient History · Bathing customs · Baths · civilization · Early Modern 1451-1600 · Europe · Hygiene · Intellectual life · Medieval History · Social aspects · Social life and customs · Water · Water and civilization · Water use · Water-supply