A Medieval Portable Hot Tub?
Posted on September 21, 2009 - Filed Under Entertainment, History
There are many benefits to having a hot tub in your own backyard. There is an obvious convenience, where you always have an excellent place to relieve stress and let the hot water and jets melt the stress off of your tired muscles. You can also throw parties with a fairly spontaneous ease, calling a few friends and taking the cover off – and maybe sparking up the grill. There are also numerous health benefits. Increased circulation is just one pleasant side effect to having a portable hot tub . It also helps the heart, by having physical effects on the body that mirror aerobics. Of course, there’s just the plain pleasure of water, which has attracted human beings since we began.
Our own bodily composition, being made of mostly water, is drawn to the water. It has a magnetic effect on us, and rewards us with an increased sense of relaxation and general wellness. There is a lot of evidence to support the notion that the human species has been drawn to the social pleasures of public baths for some time. It goes back for centuries, and even had a place in the center of culture in the Middle Ages. In the popular imagination, the Medieval times are not characterized by the cleanliness of the people, but usually its opposite. However, in the Middle Ages, public bath houses were actually quite common.
There is a good deal written, in fact, about the social rituals of the bath houses. Writers from the Middle Ages, such as Heinrich von Veldecke, wrote poetry devoted to courtly love with many mentions of the bath. In some of the more amusing texts, there are narratives about how people would gather for hours in the bath, where men would wear their finest wigs, and women wore new hats! It may not be something you’ll want to try in your hot tub, but it’s really rather thrilling to be enjoying the luxury of the spa, realizing you’re part of a long history of soaking in hot water and enjoying the company of good friends.
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