Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… that was caused by – or caused – different sorts of physical ailments. George Cheyne, who settled in Bath, advocated the virtues of ‘entertaining amusement,’ provided it was ‘innocent,’ 16 while Dr Oliver in his Dissertation on Bath Waters … 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 simplicity of its lines, could contribute to the refinement …
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