Book ID: CBB001035984

The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance (2009)

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Kosso, Cynthia (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: viii + 538 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Chapter Connell, Charles W. (2009) From Spiritual Necessity to Instrument of Torture: Water in the Middle Ages. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Jordan, Alyce A. (2009) The “Water of Thomas Becket”: Water as Medium, Metaphor, and Relic. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Cooley, Ronald W. (2009) “Almost Miraculous”: Lord North and the Healing Waters of Tunbridge Wells. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Matthew, Irene (2009) Waters of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy on the Gardens of Spain and New Spain. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Aryamontri, Deborah Chatr (2009) Running Water: Advances in Urban Water Supply during the Roman Empire. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Stephenson, John W. (2009) Villas and Aquatic Culture in Late Roman Spain. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Ferrand, Lin (2009) The Hydrologic Cycle in Bede's De Natura Rerun. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Trio, Paul (2009) The Challenge for a Medieval Center of Industrial Growth: Ypres and the Drinking-Water Problem. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Scott, Anne (2009) Come Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic, Romance, Allegory, and Fabliau. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Munn, Mark (2009) Earth and Water: The Foundations of Sovereignty in Ancient Thought. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Longfellow, Brenda (2009) The Legacy of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains in Greece. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Meyers, Gretchen E. (2009) The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity and the Image of Tiberinus. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter McDonough, Scott John (2009) “We and Those Waters of the Sea Are One”: Baptism, Bathing, and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Dunant, Etienne (2009) Natural Water Resources and the Sacred in Attica. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Owens, E. J.; Taslialan, Mehmet (2009) “Beautiful and Useful”: The Water Supply of Pisidian Antioch and the Development of the Roman Colony. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Taylor, Rabun (2009) River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Lucore, Sandra K. (2009) Archimedes, the North Baths at Morgantina, and Early Developments in Vaulted Construction. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Håland, Evy Johanne (2009) “Take, Skamandros, My Virginity”: Ideas of Water in Connection with Rites of Passage in Greece, Modern and Ancient. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Cazes, Hélène (2009) Baths, Scrubs, and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon De Vallambert (1564). In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

Chapter Cuffel, Alexandra (2009) Polemicizing Women's Bathing among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians. In: The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dib, Antoine
Rinaldi, Massimo
Boisseuil, Didier
Fiorentino, Eleonora
Del Vivo, Caterina
Concetta Cavallini
Concepts
Water
Medicine
Medicine and culture
Water resource management
Science and literature
Earth sciences
Time Periods
16th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Early modern
14th century
19th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Lebanon
Mediterranean region
Turkey
Venice (Italy)
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