The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9004173579 ISBN 13: 9789004173576

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Riassunto

Examining historical water use and ideology diachronically and cross regionally, this book reveals how religion, politics, science and social relationships transformed and were transformed by the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Cynthia K. Kosso, Ph.D. (1993) History and Classics from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at Northern Arizona University. She is author of The Archaeology of Public Policy in Late Roman Greece (2003). She co-edited, with A. Scott, Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002).

Anne Scott, Ph.D. (1988) in Literature, Brown University, is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Honors Program at Northern Arizona University. She has published on Chaucer, medieval romances, and saints’ legends. She has also co-edited, with C. Kosso, a volume of interdisciplinary essays on fear in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002) and is, with Kosso, completing a co-edited volume on poverty and prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (forthcoming)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9004173579
• ISBN 13: 9789004173576
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 538
• Redattore: Kosso Cynthia, Scott Anne