Author: East India Company
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: P. Thankappan Nair
Publisher: Calcutta : Firma KLM
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Author: India. Imperial Record Department
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: P. Thankappan Nair
Publisher:
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Susan North
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019885613X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent for the body. However, these concepts do not apply to early modern England. Sweet and Clean? analyses etiquette and medical literature, revealing repeated recommendations to wash or bathe in order to clean the skin. Clean linen was essential for propriety but advice from medical experts was contradictory. Many doctors were convinced that it prevented the spread of contagious diseases, but others recommended flannel for undergarments, and a few thought changing a fever patient's linens was dangerous. The methodology of material culture helps determine if and how this advice was practiced. Evidence from inventories, household accounts and manuals, and surviving linen garments tracks underwear through its life-cycle of production, making, wearing, laundering, and final recycling. Although the material culture of washing bodies is much sparser, other sources, such as the Old Bailey records, paint a more accurate picture of cleanliness in early modern England than has been previously described. The contrasting analyses of linen and bodies reveal what histories material culture best serves. Finally, what of the diseases-plague, smallpox, and typhus-that cleanliness of body and clothes were thought to prevent? Did following early modern medical advice protect people from these illnesses?

Author: Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1266

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Author: Madras (India : Presidency)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Asiatic Society of Bombay
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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Vol. 1-new ser., v. 7 include the society's Proceedings for 1841-1929 (title varies)

Author: Jaap R. Bruijn
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Overzicht van de activiteiten van de 7 Europese handelscompagnieën die zich bezig hielden met de vaart op Azië in de 16e, 17e, en 18e eeuw.