For a decade, several studies have renewed significantly our knowledge about public baths and their practice in the Middle East. Unfortunately, no synthesis considering the bathing phenomenon in a diachronic perspective of history of mentalities in a single city appears to have been carried out. Based on an archaeological and architectural approach, this work at first intended to propose a diachronic synthesis of the evolution of eight public bath buildings currently known in Gerasa and their practice in history. The situation in the City of the Decapolis is then confronted to the practice of public bath in Antiquity in the Middle East, as it is known today, allowing to identify matches, differences and characteristics of the corpus of Gera...
This interdisciplinary research deals with the theme of the buildings of the 'public baths' or 'bain...
Roman-style bathhouses are often used as markers to study processes of ‘Romanisation’, or, more gene...
The study of the baths landscape of Rome in the Antiquity(Ist century B.C.- Vth century A.D.) aims a...
For a decade, several studies have renewed significantly our knowledge about public baths and their ...
Depuis une dizaine d’année, plusieurs études renouvèlent considérablement nos connaissances au sujet...
International audienceSince 2006 the Balnéorient team has been studying ancient (from the Early Hell...
The Punic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations contributed with their architectural knowledge...
International audienceSince 2010, archaeological investigations of an exceptionally well-preserved m...
The bath in the Islamic world has been presented as an essential building dedicated to the umma, as ...
In Rough Cilicia, monumental public architecture was built in the initial phase of the social and po...
The bathing habit in both public and private bath houses is considered to be one of the most charact...
The social significance of some places in people's lives has long created a special culture in these...
When approaching Roman bathhouses from within a larger chronological framework, they often figure as...
The hammams (or Islamic bath-houses), commonly known as ‘Turkish baths’, are one of the key urban fa...
This interdisciplinary research deals with the theme of the buildings of the 'public baths' or 'bain...
Roman-style bathhouses are often used as markers to study processes of ‘Romanisation’, or, more gene...
The study of the baths landscape of Rome in the Antiquity(Ist century B.C.- Vth century A.D.) aims a...
For a decade, several studies have renewed significantly our knowledge about public baths and their ...
Depuis une dizaine d’année, plusieurs études renouvèlent considérablement nos connaissances au sujet...
International audienceSince 2006 the Balnéorient team has been studying ancient (from the Early Hell...
The Punic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations contributed with their architectural knowledge...
International audienceSince 2010, archaeological investigations of an exceptionally well-preserved m...
The bath in the Islamic world has been presented as an essential building dedicated to the umma, as ...
In Rough Cilicia, monumental public architecture was built in the initial phase of the social and po...
The bathing habit in both public and private bath houses is considered to be one of the most charact...
The social significance of some places in people's lives has long created a special culture in these...
When approaching Roman bathhouses from within a larger chronological framework, they often figure as...
The hammams (or Islamic bath-houses), commonly known as ‘Turkish baths’, are one of the key urban fa...
This interdisciplinary research deals with the theme of the buildings of the 'public baths' or 'bain...
Roman-style bathhouses are often used as markers to study processes of ‘Romanisation’, or, more gene...
The study of the baths landscape of Rome in the Antiquity(Ist century B.C.- Vth century A.D.) aims a...