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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1119604160 Title: Sweet and clean? : bodies and clothes in early modern England Author: Susan North Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 019885613X 9780198856139 OCLC:1119604160

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Sweet and clean? : bodies and clothes in early modern England

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Sweet and clean? : bodies and clothes in early modern England

Author:	Susan North
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent for the body. However, these concepts do not apply to early modern England. Read more...
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Subjects	Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Bathing customs -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Hygiene -- England -- History -- 17th century. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Susan North Find more information about:
ISBN:	019885613X 9780198856139
OCLC Number:	1119604160
Description:	xiv, 341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:	Digging the dirt in the pursuit of cleanliness -- Advice. Manners and health -- Clothing and disease -- Clean bodies -- Practice. Wearing linens -- Owning linens -- Manufacturing linens -- Sewing linens -- Washing linens -- More washing -- Washing bodies -- Sweet and clean.
Responsibility:	Susan North.

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How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this Read more...

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