Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, 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 century occurred against a … development and evolution from a centre of cure, whose waters had attracted invalids back in Roman times, to a centre of fashion were truly remarkable. A place of unruly, licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of …
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