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

ISBN: 9789004173576 出版年：2009 页码：534 Brill

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 J. Women at the Fountain and the Well: Imagining Experience Cynthia K. Kosso and Kevin Lawton "Take, Skamandros, My Virginity": Ideas of Water in Connection with Rites of Passage in Greece, Modern and Ancient Evy Johanne Haland Bath, Scrubs, and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon de Vallambert (1564) Helene Cazes Polemicizing Women's Bathing Among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians Alexandra Cuffel Part Two Water and the Formation of Identity and Policy Earth and Water: The Foundations of sovereignty in Ancient Thought Mark Munn The Legacy of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains in Greece Brenda Longfellow The Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity and the Image of Tiberinus Gretchen E. Meyers Cisterns in the Astynomoi Law from Pergamon Sara Saba "We and Thode Waters of the Sea Are One" Baptism, Bathing, and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia Scott John McDonough Part Three Ancient and Medieval Water Sources and Resources Natural Water Resources and the Sacred Attica Etienne Dunant "Beautiful and Useful": The Water Supply of Pisidian Antioch and the Development of the Roman Colony E.J. Owens and Dr. Mehmet Tashalan Running Water: Advances in Urban Water Supply during the Roman Empire Deborah Chatr Aryamontri Villas and Aquatic Culture in Late Roman Spain John W. Stephenson The Hydrologic Cycle in Bede's De Natura Rerum, Lin Ferrand Part Four Religious and Literary Imagery: Water in Medieval Through Early Modern Cultures Come Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic Romance, Allegory and Fabliau Anne Scott Magical Fountains in Middle English Romance Misty Rae Urban Sea Change in Shakespeare's Othello, Ruth Stevenson From Spiritual Necessity to Instrument of Torture: Water in the Middle Ages Charles W. Connell The "Water of Thomas Becket": Water as Medium, Metaphor, and Rhelic Alyce A. Jordan "Almost Miraculous": Lord North and the Healing Waters of Tunbridge Wells Ronald W. Cooley Waters of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy on the Gardens of Spain and New Spain Irene Matthews Index