Bathing and Baptism: Sir John Floyer and the Politics of Cold Bathing

Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 197-216

  Jenner, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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