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

Sweet and clean? : bodies and clothes in early modern England / Susan North.

"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 view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: North, Susan, 1956- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Clothing and dress > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Bathing customs > Europe > History > 17th century.
Hygiene > England > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Hygiene
Bathing customs
Clothing and dress
Great Britain
Europe
England
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of 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.

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