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Sweet and Clean?
How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bodies and scrubbing of clothes in early modern England.
Fashion in Detail: 1600 - 1800
A rare, close-up look at the exquisite, labor-intensive details seen in fine eighteenth century clothing This beautifully illustrated book reveals sharp pleats, high collars, gleaming pastes, colorful beads, elaborate buttons, and intricate lacework that make up some of the garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s extensive fashion collection. With an authoritative text, exquisite color photography of garment details, and line drawings and photographs showing the complete construction of each piece, the reader has the unique opportunity to examine up close historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display. It is an inspirational resource for students, collectors, designers, and anyone who is fascinated by fashion and costume. This new edition features an updated design, fresh content and new research, a comprehensive index, and an introduction that focuses on the makers and processes involved in producing 18th-century fashion.
Susan North Diary
Diary of a young woman of the English nobility, recording events from 10 June to 31 December 1808. The entries for June and July record travels centered in Cheltenham, including a visit to Shakespeare-related sites in Stratford and many trips to the theater, particularly to see the actor William Henry West Betty. The entries for the rest of the year describe daily life in London and Wimbledon and give details of lessons, visits, dinners, and more trips to the theater, with frequent references to painter and writer Henry Fuseli, a friend of Susan North's mother. The diary has a soft leather cover and is interleaved with blotting paper.
17th-century Men's Dress Patterns, 1600-1630
A unique and definitive guide to the practical construction of men's seventeenth century fashion
Sweet and Clean?
Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent for the body. However, these concepts do not apply to early modern England. Sweet and Clean? analyses etiquette and medical literature, revealing repeated recommendations to wash or bathe in order to clean the skin. Clean linen was essential for propriety but advice from medical experts was contradictory. Many doctors were convinced that it prevented the spre...
The Opposite of COMBAT: A Parents' Guide for Teaching Siblings How to Collaborate and Solve Their Own Conflicts
The Opposite of COMBAT brings parents the knowledge and skills necessary to help children of all ages navigate their own conflicts, collaborate to solve their own problems, deepen their sibling relationships, and develop trust and confidence in their decision-making abilities.
American Curiosity
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own iden...
Style & Splendor
Showcases garments now in the collection of the National Museum of Art/Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo, an sets them in the context of Queen Maud's life and times.
Before Eminent Domain
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the in
