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

Georges Vigarello, Georges Vigarello, Jean Birrell

Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages

Georges Vigarello, Georges Vigarello, Jean Birrell

252 pages paperback 1985

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nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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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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