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Reflections on Water, Its Use, and Its Meaning for Society from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period: Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott, eds., The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance
While the genesis of Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott's The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2009. Pp. viii+538. $261) was a conference on the "Nature and Function of Water," held in Flagstaff, Arizona, in October 2006, the inspiration for it might have been Pliny's remark that "there is nothing more worthy of our admiration throughout the whole universe," in reference to the abundance of water in Rome of his day.1 The twenty-seven contributors describe how the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation and uses of and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature.
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