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The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9781108493192 9781108694735 9781108717458 110869473X 110849319X 1108586155 1108637396 1108717454 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in scholarship as an example par excellence of religious and artistic syncretisms in Roman Britain. With its monumental temple, baths, and hot springs, its status as one of the most significant Roman sites in the province is unquestioned. But our academic narratives about Roman Bath are also rooted in the narratives of our more recent past. This book begins by exploring how Georgian and Victorian antiquaries developed our modern story of a healing sanctuary at Roman Bath. It shows that a curative function for the sanctuary is in fact unsupported by the archaeological evidence. It then retells the story of Roman Bath by focusing on three interlinked aspects: the entanglement of the sanctuary with Roman imperialism, the role of the hot springs in the lives of worshipers, and Bath's place within the wider world of the western Roman Empire.


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Bath as Spa and Bath as Slum
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ISBN: 0773416749 9780773416741 9780773437883 0773437886 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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This is an intensively researched study that examines the history of Bath and makes a contribution to an understanding of the way urban communities worked. The rhetoric of the city and the slum are both challenged and the interconnections between them examined in detailed case studies. In reality, the municipal politics of Bath, particularly in the field of sanitary provision, was shaped by competing attitudes to the poor of the Avon Street district. This book contains seven color photographs and eight black and white photograhs.

Gainsborough in Bath
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ISBN: 0300097115 9780300097115 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press


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A Practical Treatise on the Bath Waters, Tending to Illustrate their Beneficial Effects in Chronic Diseases : Containing, Likewise, a Brief Account of the City of Bath, and of the Hot Springs
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ISBN: 1107338174 1108066372 Year: 1822 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Bath physician Joseph Hume Spry (c.1779-1859) was concerned that the popular practice of 'taking the waters' had fallen out of favour. In 1822 he produced this treatise extolling the healing properties of Bath's waters, supported by his own case notes and the writings of other physicians. He claimed that manifold afflictions, ranging from gout to indigestion, could be eased by drinking or bathing in these mineral-rich waters. In addition to offering careful instructions for treating each ailment, Spry's book includes a chapter on Bath's history, detailed descriptions and a sketch of the Roman baths, and a summary of the authors who had previously described the baths, from Solinus in the third century to Spry's contemporaries. Opening the work with a supplicating dedication to one of Bath's wealthy patrons, Charles Herbert Pierrepont, second Earl Manvers, Spry also used the book to appeal for the much-needed restoration of the Roman baths.

Testi, intertesti, contesti : seminario su The wife of bath di Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
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ISBN: 8834305094 9788834305096 Year: 2000 Volume: 62 14 Publisher: Milano: Vita e pensiero,

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