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CHAPTER THREE
A STEAMY INTERLUDE: 1000–1550
73 The Romance of the Rose … “chamber of Venus” clean: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose, trans. and ed. Frances Horgan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 220, 33, 205.
75 “Wash yourself”: Ancrene Wisse: Guide for Anchoresses, trans. Hugh White (London: Penguin, 1993), 196.
76 Sone of Nansay: Danielle Regnier-Bohler, “Imagining the Self,” in Revelations of the Medieval World, ed. Georges Duby, vol. 2 of A History of Private Life, ed. Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988), 363–64.
76 The Romance of Flammenca: The Romance of Flammenca, trans. Merton Jerome Hubert, ed. Marion E. Porter (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962), 53, 57.
76 medieval baby-care manuals: Shulamith Shahar, Childhood in the Middle Ages, trans. Chaya Galai (London: Routledge, 1992), 83–86.
77 A gallon of water: Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages, 152.
77 St. Thomas Aquinas: Annick Le Guérer, Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell, trans. Richard Miller (London: Chatto and Windus, 1993), 205.
77 “When he took a bath”: Goetz, Life in the Middle Ages, 186–87.
78 a deceitful woman named Lydia: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, trans. John Payne (New York: Random House, 1930), 561 (day 7, story 9).
78 the return of the public bath: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 34.
80 Badegeld: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 36.
80 Fourteenth—century London: Georges Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 21; Lynn Thorndike, “Sanitation, Baths, and Street-Cleaning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Speculum, 1924, 197–98.
80 Public baths enjoyed: Georges Duby and Philippe Braunstein, “The Emergence of the Individual,” in Revelations of the Medieval World, ed. Georges Duby, vol. 2 of A History of Private Life, ed. Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988), 602.
80 A miniature: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 36; Henriques, Prostitution and Society, 57.
81 Gian—Francesco Poggio: Duby and Braunstein, “Emergence of the Individual,” 603–7.
82 A French manuscript: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 34; Fernando Henriques, Prostitution in Europe and the New World (London: McGibbon and Kee, 1963), 97.
83 “All who want”: Sachs, Renaissance Woman, 29.
83 The Romance of Flammenca … “No longer maids”: The Romance of Flammenca, 95, 313, 353.
85 Lovers bathe: Boccaccio, Decameron, 658–60.
86 In fifteenth-century France: Jacques Rossiaud, “Prostitution, Sex and Society in French Towns in the Fifteenth Century,” in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, ed. Philippe Ariès and André Béjin, trans. Anthony Foster (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), 76–77.
87 Henry II: Henriques, Prostitution and Society, 59–61; Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 17–18.
87 The grandest of residences: Mark Girouard, Life in the French Country House (New York: Knopf, 2000), 220.
88 John Russell: John Russell, “The Boke of Nurture,” ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, in The Babees Book (London: Early English Text Society, 1868), 176–78, 182–85, 249–59.
90 A story from late medieval Germany: Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000), 120–21.
90 In the sixteenth century: Bumke, Courtly Culture, 121.
91 Beginning in 1347: Joan Acocella, “The End of the World: Interpreting the Plague,” New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2005, 82.
92 Boccaccio gives a dispassionate … without ceremony or attendants: Boccaccio, Decameron, 8–16.
93 Marchionne di Coppo Stefani: Colin Platt, King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 4.
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