Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

A Cultural History of Bathing in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium book cover

1st Edition

A Cultural History of Bathing in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium

By Michal Zytka Copyright 2019
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This book discusses social, religious and medical attitudes towards bathing in Late Antiquity. It examines the place of bathing in late Roman and early Byzantine society as seen in the literary, historical, and documentary sources from the late antique period. The author argues that bathing became one of the most important elements in defining what it meant to be a Roman; indeed, the social... Read more

List of Figures





Abbreviations





Introduction





1: Baths and Roman society





2: Baths, bathing and religion





3: Bathing in medicine





4: Final conclusions





Appendix





Bibliography





Index

Biography

Michal Zytka, having obtained his MA at Łódź University, Poland, continued his research career at Cardiff University where he completed his doctoral thesis. Following a period of freelance editorial and translation work, he is now also pursuing a career in the Civil Service. He is a co-translator and the English language editor of Cereals of Antiquity and early Byzantine times: Wheat and Barley in medical sources (second to seventh century AD), published in the Byzantine Lodziensia series, Łódź 2014, and of the forthcoming The Bulgarian State in 927–969: The Epoch of Tsar Peter I.

Add to Cart