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Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest in bathing (hot and cold), swimming, and good personal hygiene. Medical activities grew over time, but even early medieval monks were already great experts in treating the sick. The contributions examine literary, medical, historical texts and images and probe the information we can glean from them. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it possible to view this large field in a complex and diversified manner, taking into account both early medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, water, bathing, and health. Such a cultural-historical perspective creates a most valuable bridge connecting literary and scientific documents under the umbrella of the history of mentality and history of everyday life. The volume does not aim at idealizing the past, but it definitely intends to deconstruct modern myths about the 'dirty' and 'unhealthy' Middle Ages and early modern age.
Colette's Republic
In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals and the new national education system of the 1870s and 80s - the structure meant to impart these ideals - shaped belle époque popular culture is the focus of this book. The author reassesses the meaning of secularization and of...
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe. Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Félix Arnaudin (1844-1921). The study places the songs, stories, and everyday speech that Arnaudin collected, as well as the photographs he took, in the everyday lives of agricultural workers and artisans. It argues that the changes are were understood as a gr...
The Clean Body
How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for go...
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences. These disciplines are explored through an extensive range of essays from artists, practitioners, researchers and scholars, many of whom are working in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary contexts. With a largely contemporary focus underpinned by an introductory section that sets out a history of antecedent intersections, the volume offers a diverse range of perspectives on science, scientific methods, and scientific knowledge in dialogue with performance scholarship ...
Georges Vigarello
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Bad ohne Zimmer / Bathroom Unplugged
Das Zeitalter des Badezimmers als abgeschlossener Reinraum innerhalb des Wohnraums wird zu Ende gehen. Ausgehend von dieser die üblichen Grenzen des Wohnbaus sprengenden These hat sich der Lehrstuhl Marc Angélil (Architektur und Entwurf) der ETH Zürich in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Firma Dornbracht und Architonic mit unserem heutigen Verständnis von Körperlichkeit und dessen Potenzial für den architektonischen Entwurf beschäftigt. Privates und Intimes sind nicht mehr deckungsgleich. Viele für lange Zeit private Handlungen rücken medial oder physisch rigoros in die Öffentlichkeit. Gleichzeitig entwickeln sich fortwährend neue Strategien, in dieser zunehmenden Öffentlichkeit des privaten Lebens Zonen oder Enklaven der Intimität herzustellen. Zur Darstellung kommen sieben visionäre Entwürfe von Studierenden, die von grundlegenden Essays zum Thema Körperlichkeit, Sauberkeit und Intimität in Kunst und Architektur begleitet werden.
Fragments for a History of the Human Body
Part 2 covers the junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside" by studying the manifestations - or production - of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death.
Milan Kundera ou l'insoutenable corporalité de l'être
Sommes-nous ou pas nos propres corps ? Et nos visages, font-ils partie du corps ? Des questions à première vue insolites, mais qui traversent notre époque sans avoir encore reçu de réponses univoques à même d'éclaircir la question du rapport problématique de l'homme et de son double corporel. C'est à de telles questions que cet ouvrage tente de répondre, en prenant comme support de réflexion l'oeuvre de Milan Kundera, qui reflète l'ambiguïté foncière du corps sous la forme d'une interrogation complexe de la corporalité de l'être, vécue plus d'une fois par les personnages de ses romans comme insoutenable.
