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"Our lightye and learned tyme": William Turner and the Baths at Bath

"Our lightye and learned tyme": William Turner and the Baths at Bath Johnye C. Sturcken In sixteenth-century England, bathing was associated with treatment of disease rather than with personal hygiene, and spas such as Bath were surely not known as centers for entertaining the elite of society as in later ages. The first chronicler of the serious, therapeutic uses of such watering places was William Turner, a physician-priest who believed in using natural baths for treating disease. His treatise on the baths, published by Arnold Birckman at Cologne in 1562 with a dedication to Lord Edward Seymour, was the first printed work on the baths at Bath. 1 Often called the father of English botany, 2 Turner served as Dean ofWells from 1551 to 1553. Since Wells was only fifteen miles from Bath, Turner had opportunity to visit the Bath waters often. After the accession of Mary in 1553, he fled to the continent and remained there five years. During that period, Turner began to write about the waters of Bath and to visit natural baths in Germany and Italy. Returning to England in 1558 after Elizabeth came to the throne, he preached to a large congregation at St. Paul's on September 10 of the following year. He was reinstated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

"Our lightye and learned tyme": William Turner and the Baths at Bath

Sturcken, Johnye C.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 10 (1): 92 – Dec 2, 1984
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© Copyright 1984 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Johnye C. Sturcken In sixteenth-century England, bathing was associated with treatment of disease rather than with personal hygiene, and spas such as Bath were surely not known as centers for entertaining the elite of society as in later ages. The first chronicler of the serious, therapeutic uses of such watering places was William Turner, a physician-priest who believed in using natural baths for treating disease. His treatise on the baths, published by Arnold Birckman at Cologne in 1562 with a dedication to Lord Edward Seymour, was the first printed work on the baths at Bath. 1 Often called the father of English botany, 2 Turner served as Dean ofWells from 1551 to 1553. Since Wells was only fifteen miles from Bath, Turner had opportunity to visit the Bath waters often. After the accession of Mary in 1553, he fled to the continent and remained there five years. During that period, Turner began to write about the waters of Bath and to visit natural baths in Germany and Italy. Returning to England in 1558 after Elizabeth came to the throne, he preached to a large congregation at St. Paul's on September 10 of the following year. He was reinstated

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Published: Dec 2, 1984

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