التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Snuggling with your identity: beds and the sense of touch in Roman culture. |
| المؤلفون: |
Linn, Jason |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Ancient History; Dec2022, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p200-224, 25p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
BUILT environment, SOCIAL status, CULTURE, ROMANS, SCHOLARSHIPS, SENSES |
| مستخلص: |
This article seeks to find attitudes and judgments elite Romans made based on a person's bed. It culls written sources from a diverse range of genres to argue that elite Roman men saw beds as transformative and reflective items. Through long-lasting and frequent contact, a bed's qualities seeped into bodies and characters. Consequently, as a powerful part of the built environment, beds could strengthen or weaken soldiers as well as help or harm a person's health. Furthermore, beds' transformative power meant elite Romans thought where a man slept revealed who he was: his social status, moral fiber, and civilization. In short, beds marked a person's identity. Examining how Roman elites conceptualized beds informs us on the larger issue of the history of the body, in general, and the sense of touch, in particular. Scholarship on the history of touch tends not analyze the effects of sustained and repetitive contact with a mundane object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
