The English Spa, 1560-1815: A Social HistoryFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - 401 pagina's Beginning in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, members of the English nobility and gentry made a practice of taking relaxation at the country's inland spas. This account shows the spas to have been not only centers of healing and recreating but also venues of intrigue extending to political, religious, economic, and social issues. |
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... cured of a variety of ailments . At Buxton , now part of a royal forest , although the local spring was known as St Anne's Well and a chapel of St Anne , the patron of cripples , was erected , the Roman baths there apparently fell into ...
... cured of a variety of ailments . At Buxton , now part of a royal forest , although the local spring was known as St Anne's Well and a chapel of St Anne , the patron of cripples , was erected , the Roman baths there apparently fell into ...
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... cure of illness , the policy of prohibition was abandoned . The government lifted its ban on the public bathing in and drinking of domestic waters and encouraged and promoted the use of a limited number , with a more secular and ...
... cure of illness , the policy of prohibition was abandoned . The government lifted its ban on the public bathing in and drinking of domestic waters and encouraged and promoted the use of a limited number , with a more secular and ...
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... cures offered cover for dissidents who rejected the new Erastian and Protestant regime . But gatherings at wells were a deeply entrenched custom traceable to ancient times , and certain wells , especially sul- phureous or warm springs ...
... cures offered cover for dissidents who rejected the new Erastian and Protestant regime . But gatherings at wells were a deeply entrenched custom traceable to ancient times , and certain wells , especially sul- phureous or warm springs ...
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... cures and more informed enquiry about the nature and practice of medicine propelled Elizabeth I's government into ... cure , the hot springs and baths at Bath . Secure in the queen's patronage , he dedicated the final part of his ...
... cures and more informed enquiry about the nature and practice of medicine propelled Elizabeth I's government into ... cure , the hot springs and baths at Bath . Secure in the queen's patronage , he dedicated the final part of his ...
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... cure disease and named continental baths in use , as at Ems in the bishopric of Trier , Wiesbaden in Nassau , Baden in the Black Forest , Wildbad in Würt- temberg and Abano in Italy . He described eighty - nine illnesses which might be ...
... cure disease and named continental baths in use , as at Ems in the bishopric of Trier , Wiesbaden in Nassau , Baden in the Black Forest , Wildbad in Würt- temberg and Abano in Italy . He described eighty - nine illnesses which might be ...
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Bath and the Civil War | 53 |
Restoration Development The Provincial Spas | 66 |
Tunbridge Wells Rivals Bath Late Stuart Changes | 79 |
Metropolitan Spas | 99 |
Bath The New Towns | 111 |
Bath The Price of Primacy | 270 |
Leamington Priors and Wartime Minor Spas | 284 |
Conclusion | 302 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography | 313 |
Notes | 315 |
Appendix | 353 |
A The Chronological Development of the English Spas to 1815 | 355 |
B Initial Promoters of some Minor Provincial English Spas c 16601815 | 361 |
Bath The Regulated Society and the Leisure Industry | 132 |
ColdBathing at the Minor Spas | 159 |
Cheltenham The Village Spa | 179 |
The Challenge of Cheltenham | 191 |
The Innkeepers Rule Harrogate and Scarborough | 202 |
The Innkeepers Spas of Derbyshire Buxton and Matlock | 216 |
Georgian Spas of the South Tunbridge Wells Epsom and Southampton | 231 |
The Severn Spas The Bristol Hotwells and Malvern | 245 |
Wartime Cheltenham Problems of Expansion | 255 |
C Size of the LongRooms or AssemblyRooms of the Spa Towns | 365 |
D The Domestic Trade in Bottled Natural Mineral Waters to 1816 | 366 |
E London Prices of Mineral Waters per dozen bottles | 367 |
Select Bibliography | 368 |
Index | 381 |
A Places | 383 |
B People | 395 |
C Subjects | 400 |
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