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368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781466867765
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 08 April 2014
Description
For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant chan...
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368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781466867765
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 08 April 2014
Description
For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant chan...