Rome, Pollution and Propriety
Title | Rome, Pollution and Propriety PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bradley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139536575 |
Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the unification of Italy and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled.
Rome, Pollution and Propriety
Title | Rome, Pollution and Propriety PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bradley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Pollution |
ISBN | 9781139526029 |
A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe's oldest and most influential cities.
Rome, Pollution and Propriety
Title | Rome, Pollution and Propriety PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bradley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107014433 |
A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe's oldest and most influential cities.
Smell and the Ancient Senses
Title | Smell and the Ancient Senses PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bradley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2014-12-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317565827 |
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets. The cultural study of smell has largely focused on pollution, transgression and propriety, but the olfactory sense came into play in a wide range of domains and activities: ancient medicine and philosophy, religion, botany and natural history, erotic literature, urban planning, dining, satire and comedy—where odours, aromas, scents and stenches were rich and versatile components of the ancient sensorium. The first comprehensive introduction to the role of smell in the history, literature and society of classical antiquity, Smell and the Ancient Senses explores and probes the ways that the olfactory sense can contribute to our perceptions of ancient life, behaviour, identity and morality.
Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome
Title | Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jack J. Lennon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Pollution |
ISBN | 9781107422629 |
Pollution could come from any number of sources in the Roman world. Bodily functions, sexual activity, bloodshed, death - any of these could cause disaster if brought into contact with religion. Its presence could invalidate sacrifices, taint religious officials, and threaten to bring down the anger of the gods upon the city. Orators could use pollution as a means of denigrating opponents and obstructing religious procedures, and writers could emphasise the 'otherness' of barbarians by drawing attention to their different ideas about what was or was not 'dirty'. Yet despite all this, religious pollution remained a vague concept within the Latin language, and what constituted pollution could change depending on the context in which it appeared. Calling upon a range of research disciplines, this book highlights the significant role that pollution played across Roman religion, and the role it played in the construction of religious identity.
From Shame to Sin
Title | From Shame to Sin PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Harper |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674074564 |
The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Rome in the Eighth Century
Title | Rome in the Eighth Century PDF eBook |
Author | John Osborne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1108834582 |
A history of Rome in the critical eighth century CE focusing on the evidence of material culture and archaeology.