The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to...
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For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in –
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00IHCC5SS
Publisher: North Point Press
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
The history of washing (or not) in Europe. Interesting.
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