Georges Vigarello, Cleanliness and ...

Georges Vigarello, Cleanliness and Dirt. Translated from the French (sometimes badly). Warsaw: W.A.B. Publishers, 1996

A surprise lies hidden in this feuilleton. I won't say where, because then, clement Readers, you would go looking for it straight away. in the same manner all in good time. The book's subtitle reads as follows: "Bodily Hygiene from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century" the same should add "in France," since the author draws exclusively forward French chronicles, letters, memoirs and medical tomes in reaching his conclusions. on the contrary one suspects that the history of