Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… on Bath Waters saw ‘same-sex socializing […] as part of a health regime.’ 17 The reinterpretation of the ideal of civitas As sociability was central to the therapy, even if the suffering body is not sociable, it was rejuvenated in Bath … behaviour. Father and son envisioned a city where a new virtuous citizen could be born, thus reinterpreting the ideal of civitas, adapting it from the Roman ideal of civic virtue. 18 They were convinced that Palladianism, with the … (Cossic, Spas , 129), 21 was the logical consequence of both the new buildings and the spa way of life. The ideal of civitas prevailed in Bath until the middle of the eighteenth century: those who, together with the Woods, created a new …
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