Architecture & Judaism: The Use of Ground Water for Medieval Mikvaot
A detailed analysis of the famous 13th-century mikveh in Friedberg Germany, and other medieval mikvaot, looking at the architecture, and attempting to answer the question, why were they dug so deep?
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Ground Water for Medieval Mikvaot |
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| Topics: | Jewish History, Mikveh |
Neta Bodner is a Rothschild post-doctoral fellow, teaching Medieval Art and Architecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. Her current project is a comparative analysis of spaces for ritual immersion from the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries.
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