CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Vargek, Ivona |
|---|---|
| Title | Pleasure or Necessity? Zagreb Baths in the Middle Ages |
| Summary | There were two baths operating in Zagreb during the High and the Late Middle Ages. They were owned by the people coming from different social groups: ban, ecclesiastic structures, i.e. the Cistercian Order and the Prebendaries, citizens of Zagreb and nobles. The visitors’ structure was diverse as well, from nobles to peasants. This work will focus on social components of the baths. Services provided inside, from bathing and shaving to bloodletting, turned these institutions into social places of communal bathing. The challenging part are the sources which are of legal nature – litigations, last wills and the statutes. Even though this makes the reconstruction of social history harder, it is possible to extract many social aspects from the available information. Comparison and, in case where needed, analogy with the baths of Sopron and Pressburg will help me resolve some questions for which the data for Zagreb baths is insufficient. |
| Supervisor | Szende, Katalin |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/vargek_ivona.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University