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bathing customs

Clean and decent

By Lawrence Wright

Bathing - The Body and Community Care

By Julia Twigg

Australian Beach Cultures

By Douglas Booth

Cathedrals of the Flesh

By Alexia Brue

The Dirt on Clean

By Katherine Ashenburg

Cultural History of Bathing in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium

By Michal Zytka

The book of the bath

By Catherine Kanner

Toilets, bathtubs, sinks, and sewers

By Penny Colman

Splash!

By Susan Kovacs Buxbaum

Dirt, Undress, And Difference

By Adeline Marie Masquelier

Venezia

By Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini

Taking the Waters

By Alev Lytle Croutier

Hot tubs

By Noel Young

Im städtischen Bad vor 500 Jahren

By Robert Büchner

Baths and Bathing

By Stefanie Hoss

La Versilia com'era

By Giorgio Batini

Māghamāhātmya

By Dīnakr̥shṇa Dāsa

Now I lay me down to eat

By Bernard Rudofsky

Wunderbares Wasser

By Gernot von Hahn

Furo

By Akira Tsumura

Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

By Albrecht Classen

How to Take a Japanese Bath

By Leonard Koren

Ḥadāʾiq al-nammām fī al-kalām ʻalá mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-ḥammām

By Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Kawkabanī

An irreverent and almost complete social history of the bathroom

By Frank Muir