Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages by Jean Birrell, Georges Vigarello, Georges Vigarello
Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages
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Jean Birrell, Georges Vigarello, Georges Vigarello
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Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages

Jean Birrell, Georges Vigarello, Georges Vigarello

252 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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This lucid and imaginative study uses the French experience to examine one fundamental aspect of the 'civilizing process': the way in which, over the past millennium, attitudes to and perceptions of human cleanliness, health and hygiene have chang...

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