de Bonneville, Francoise

The book of bath

Bog

DKK 200,00

More than a matter of cleanliness, the bath holds a mirror up to the prevailing culture – a social activity at the Roman baths, an act of purification in the Oriental Hammam, contemplative in the Japanese furo and restorative in the Scandinavian sauna. To purify oneself in clear Water before rendering homage to the gods has been part of the ceremonial of every religion since earlies antiquity. En Egypt people bathed their face and hands in Water before offering up their prayers to Isis, while priests washed their bodies at least twice each night and twice each day. In the Old Testament, there are numeous texts celebrating Water. Yet Water did not properly become a symbol of the spiritual life until the New Testament era, when Christianity was quick to readopt the lustral bath prescribed by Moses. In much the same way, waater is also used in certain initiation rites. In the Middle Ages, for example, on the eve of being dubbed knight, and having spent the three previous nights in prayer and fasting, the Young aspirant used to take a bath i a large tub of herb.scented hot Water in order to emerge with no taint.

Thames & Hudson 1998

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INDHOLD: The story of Water. – Purifying Water. – Symbol of regeneration and renascience. – PUBLIC BATHS: The invention og the art of bathing in Greece. – Beneath the elegant cupolas of the Roman baths. – The gentle warmth of the medieval bathhouse. – Two hundred years without a bath. – The extraordinay Growth of public baths. – The new craze of swimming pools. The fascination of Oriental Baths in nineteenth-century London, Pris and New York. – From public baths to the public showers. – PRIVATE BATHS: The ancient model of the moderne bathroom. -Medieval Baths. – The decline of magnificent bathroom in the seventeenth Century. – The intimacy of the eighteenth-century cabinet de bains. – Baths, Washstands, petit indiscrets, Water Cans and Wahs basins. – English comfort. – Portable baths and baths delivery to the home. – The cabinet de toilette: Temple og femininity. – THE MODERN BATHROOM: The English bathroom. – Water, clean and tiled. The American high-tech bathroom.- From the need to keep clean to the pleasures of a comfortable bathroom. – The perfectly equipped moderne bathroom. – From art deco to the contemporary bathroom. – The sensual delight of the bath. – In the heat of the Hammam. – The pleasures of the Scandinavian Sauna. – Japanese baths. The ecstasies og the steaming hot bath. – The natural bathroom. Bathing as a lifestyle. – The virtues of thermal spas and balneoptherapy. – The poetry of the bath. – Chronology. – Bibliography. – Index.- Indbundet og med omslag. – Stort format. – Illustreret. – 208 sider. – Pænt eksemplar