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The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1405 –1410. " The Wife of Bath's Tale " ( Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer ...
Roman Baths (Bath) / 51.3809; -2.3595. The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site.
Ancient Roman bathing. Bathing played a major part in ancient Roman culture and society. It was one of the most common daily activities and was practised across a wide variety of social classes. [1] [2] Though many contemporary cultures see bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, bathing in Rome was a communal activity.
Woman in a Tub. (Degas) Woman in a Tub (or The Tub) is one of a suite of pastels on paper created by the French painter Edgar Degas in the 1880s and is in the collection of the Hill-Stead Museum in Connecticut. The suite of pastels all featured nude women "bathing, washing, drying, wiping themselves, combing their hair or having it combed" and ...
Before the mid-19th century, when Western influence increased, nude communal bathing for men, women, and children at the local unisex public bath, or sentō, was a daily fact of life. In contemporary times, many, but not all administrative regions forbid nude mixed gender public baths, with exceptions for children under a certain age when ...
While Christians were mainly concerned about mixed-gender bathing, which had been common, Islam also prohibited nudity for women in the company of non-Muslim women. [101] In general, the Roman bathing facilities were adapted for separation of the genders, and the bathers retaining at least a loin-cloth rather than being nude, as was the case in ...
Lady Barbara Montague (ca. 1722 – August 1765) was a British philanthropist and charity worker, who sponsored programs to assist primarily poor women. As an unmarried woman, and due to illness unable to live with family, she created an alternate family situation that allowed her independence. Joining a community of women in Bath, the group ...
Bathsheba at her Bath is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, dated around 1575 and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France.