Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance

Cynthia K. Kosso, Ph.D. (1993) History and Classics from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at Northern Arizona University. She is author of The Archaeology of Public Policy in Late Roman Greece (2003). She co-edited, with A. Scott, Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002).Anne Scott, Ph.D. (1988) in Literature, Brown University, is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Honors Program at Northern Arizona University. She has published on Chaucer, medieval romances, and saints’ legends. She has also co-edited, with C. Kosso, a volume of interdisciplinary essays on fear in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002) and is, with Kosso, completing a co-edited volume on poverty and prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (forthcoming)

• Introduction Cynthia Kosso and Anne ScottPart One: Gender Roles, Attitudes, Practices, and innovations in Baths and BathingRiver Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity Rabun TaylorArchimedes, the North Baths at Morgantina, and Early Developments in Vaulted Construction Sandra K. LucoreFemale Bathers and the Emergence of the Female Nude in greek Art Robert F. Sutton J.Women at the Fountain and the Well: Imagining Experience Cynthia K. Kosso and Kevin Lawton“Take, Skamandros, My Virginity”: Ideas of Water in Connection with Rites of Passage in Greece, Modern and Ancient Evy Johanne HalandBath, Scrubs, and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon de Vallambert (1564) Helene CazesPolemicizing Women’s Bathing Among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians Alexandra CuffelPart Two: Water and the Formation of Identity and PolicyEarth and Water: The Foundations of sovereignty in Ancient Thought Mark MunnThe Legacy of Hadrian: Roman Monumental Civic Fountains in Greece Brenda LongfellowThe Divine River: Ancient Roman Identity and the Image of Tiberinus Gretchen E. MeyersCisterns in the Astynomoi Law from Pergamon Sara Saba“We and Thode Waters of the Sea Are One” Baptism, Bathing, and the Construction of Identity in Late Ancient Babylonia Scott John McDonoughPart Three: Ancient and Medieval Water Sources and ResourcesNatural Water Resources and the Sacred Attica Etienne Dunant“Beautiful and Useful”: The Water Supply of Pisidian Antioch and the Development of the Roman Colony E.J. Owens and Dr. Mehmet TashalanRunning Water: Advances in Urban Water Supply during the Roman Empire Deborah Chatr AryamontriVillas and Aquatic Culture in Late Roman Spain John W. StephensonThe Hydrologic Cycle in Bede’s De Natura Rerum, Lin FerrandPart Four: Religious and Literary Imagery: Water in Medieval Through Early Modern CulturesCome Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic Romance, Allegory and Fabliau Anne ScottMagical Fountains in Middle English Romance Misty Rae UrbanSea Change in Shakespeare’s Othello, Ruth StevensonFrom Spiritual Necessity to Instrument of Torture: Water in the Middle Ages Charles W. ConnellThe “Water of Thomas Becket”: Water as Medium, Metaphor, and Rhelic Alyce A. Jordan“Almost Miraculous”: Lord North and the Healing Waters of Tunbridge Wells Ronald W. CooleyWaters of Paradise: A Brief Hydroloquy on the Gardens of Spain and New Spain Irene MatthewsIndex