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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Other Authors: Kosso, Cynthia, Scott, Anne, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Technology and change in history ; v. 11.
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Online Access:CONNECT