Social practice, medical knowledge and literary reflections of the bathing culture in the medieval Catalan context
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2009.v39.i1.101Keywords:
Bathing, Thermalism, Sociability, Medicine, LiteratureAbstract
Bathing, particularly thermal baths, which were therapeutic, but also cold baths, became an occasion for social gatherings in late-medieval Catalonia, especially among the elite. It had the sanction of the prestigious university medicine, but it was nevertheless an activity condemned by moralists, a situation that is frequently reflected in literary works. The characteristics of the medical literature market account for the absence of specialised treatises on this subject during this period.
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