Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the body politic. Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth … properties and were frequented according to one’s ailments. 14 Some were exclusively reserved for the upper reaches of society such as the Cross Bath, or the Cold Bath – a private bath, 15 others were more mixed as was the King’s Bath. … few Bath doctors, Ralph Allen, in Prior Park – tried to promote a utopia, that of Bath as a prime example of a new, open society. 22 In Bath, different social classes were brought together by shared illnesses, so a shared condition of …
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