Bains et thermes dans la Rome antique | L'Histoire nous le dira #58

We often imagine ancient Roman civilization as a soft one. A people of athletic people in slippers who indulged themselves in sweet tranquility and pleasure. However, there remains a space of this leisure civilization that we have not yet seen and which shows how the relationship to the body and... to understanding took shape, and I spoke of baths and thermal baths. Patreon:   / hndl   With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Subscribe to my channel:    / lhistoirenousledira   Facebook:   / histoirenousledira   Images from https://www.storyblocks.com Music from the website: epidemicsound.com The videos are used for educational purposes under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Fair Use). Sources and further reading: CLAVEL-LÉVÊQUE, M. The Empire of Games. Symbolic Space and Social Practice in the Roman World, Paris, CNRS, 1984. MALISSARD, A. The Romans and Water: Fountains, Bathrooms, Baths, Sewers, Aqueducts. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1994. TONER, J.P. Leisure and Ancient Rome, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995. MALISSARD, Alain. The Romans and Water: Fountains, Bathrooms, Baths, Sewers, Aqueducts. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1994. YEGÜL, Fikret. Bathing in the Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, BRUUN, Christer “Water supply, drainage and watermills”, in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, edited by Paul Erdkamp, ​​Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 310-314. DODGE, Hazel. "Amusing the Masses: Buildings for Entertainment and Leisure in the Roman World," in David Stone Potter, David J. Marringly (ed.), Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire, University of Michigan Press, 2010. DeLAINE, J. The Baths of Caracalla: A Study in the Design, Construction, and Economics of Large-Scale Building Projects in Imperial Rome, Portsmouth, RI, 1997. FAGAN, Garrett G. Bathing in Public in the Roman World, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1999. DECKER, W. and J.P. Thuillier, Le Sport dans l'Antiquité. Egypte, Grèce, Rome, Paris: Picard, 2004. THÉBERT, Y. Roman Baths in North Africa and their Mediterranean Context, Rome, 2003. ROBERT, Jean-Noël. Les plaisirs à Rome, Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 1983. NIELSEN, Inge. Thermae et balnea: The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman Public Baths. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1990. LAURENCE, Ray. Roman Passions. A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome, New York, Continuum, 2009. TONER, J.P. Leisure and Ancient Rome, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995. EGER, Asa. “Queered Space in the Roman Bathhouse”, in M. Harlow and R. Laurence (eds) Age and Aging in the Roman Empire, Portsmouth, RI, p. 131-151. BARTHÈLEMY, Suzanne and Danielle Gourevitch, Les loisirs des romains (The Leisure of the Romans), Paris, SEDES, 1975. References can be found in: TURCOT, Laurent, Sports and Leisure, a History from the Origins to the Present Day (Paris, Gallimard, 2016). The text and sources have been independently verified by a PhD historian. Other references are available upon request.