He was the brother of Galla, wife of Julius Constantius, and half-brother of Vulcacius Rufinus, and probably had a son named Neratius Scopius. He owned some balnea on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, the balnea Neratii Cerealis, located between the church built by Pope Liberius (the modern Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore) and the Basilica of Junius Bassus; maybe it was the domus Neratiorum, owned by an aristocratic family of the 2nd century, to which he added the balnea around 360. In 328 he was praefectus annonae of Rome.Codex Theodosianus xiv.
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Henry de Balnea is the mistaken identity created by Thomas Tanner for the author of Speculum spiritualium. Balnea was of the Carthusian order. Of the exact date at which he flourished there seems to be no certain information; but as he quotes from both Richard Hampole, who died in 1349, and Walter Hylton, who died in 1395, he cannot well be assigned to an earlier period than the fifteenth century. Tanner infers that Henry de Balnea was an Englishman from the fact that he quotes Hylton in English.
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In ancient Rome there were three types of baths: baths at home (balnea), private baths (balnea privata), and public baths (balnea publica). The practice of bathing was so engrained that the Roman legions, during their long occupations in foreign lands, built their own baths at mineral and thermal springs in the newly conquered lands. Examples are found all over Europe.Schadewalt H. The history of Roman bathing culture [in Dutch]. Integraal1989;4:25–35 After the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and the rise of Christianity, cleanliness was abandoned since the Church considered that the practice of bathing a prelude to forbidden behaviour.
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Peasants of the Banjani, ca. 1860 The first written mention of the Banjani is in 1319. Some scholars argued that the name could derive from balnea (sr. banja), which means "bath" or "spa".
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41, ed. Müller (cited by Rich, 183) have no singular number, were the public baths, but this accuracy of diction is neglected by many of the subsequent writers, and particularly by the poets, amongst whom balnea is not uncommonly used in the plural number to signify the public baths, since the word balneae could not be introduced in a hexameter verse. Pliny also, in the same sentence, makes use of the neuter plural balnea for public, and of balneum for a private bath.Ep. ii. 17.
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In fact, several tombstones from across the empire claim: 'Baths, wine, and sex corrupt our bodies, but baths, wine, and sex make life worth living.' (“balnea vina Venus / corrumpunt corpora / nostra se vitam faciunt / balnea vina Venus,” epitaph of Tiberius Claudius Secundus, CIL VI.15258, Rome, 1st C.) The objections of the philosopher Seneca were instead about the associated noise that interrupted his work when he resided above a bath.Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 56.1, 2, Seneca the Younger. Quoted in Invisible Romans, chapter 1, Robert C. Knapp.
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The settlement changed name a lot during its history, but from the Roman times it was always connected to its spa function (Serbian banja): Balnea, Banja, Velika Banja ("Great Spa"), Aleksinačka Banja ("Aleksinac Spa"), Sokol Banja.
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13 (cited by Rich, 184) balnea, and by Martialvi. 42 (cited by Rich, 184) Etrusci thermulae. In an epigram by Martialix. 76 (cited by Rich, 184)—subice balneum thermis—the terms are not applied to the whole building, but to two different chambers in the same edifice.
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The chronology of the various periods of the villa ranges from the 1st to the 5th century. From the 3rd century onward, there was an increase in extent especially in the 4th century . In addition to a large residential complex, a thermal complex was discovered to the east,Reis, Maria Pilar (2004). Las termas y balnea romanos de Lusitania.
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Online Latin text and English translation here . Latin: "Quod ad libros quorum mentionem fecisti: si in illis contineatur, quod cum libro Dei conveniat, in libro Dei [est] quod sufficiat absque illo; quod si in illis fuerit quod libro Dei repugnet, neutiquam est eo [nobis] opus, jube igitur e medio tolli". Jussit ergo Amrus Ebno’lAs dispergi eos per balnea Alexandriae, atque illis calefaciendis comburi; ita spatio semestri consumpti sunt. Audi quid factum fuerit et mirare.
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The history of San Casciano is strictly connected to the presence of hot waters, with 42 springs, a mean temperature of and a daily delivery of (third in Europe). According to a legend, the Balnea Clusinae were founded by Porsenna, an Etruscan king of Chiusi. The baths were popular also during the Roman era, Augustus being amongst its users. In the 3rd to 4th centuries a Christian Pieve of St. Mary ad balneo existed in San Casciano.
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Bromont (Roland Désourdy) Airport serves the region. In the southern portion of the city lies Lac Bromont, the largest lake within the city limits, and the smaller Lac Gale, near which is built BALNEA Spa, the largest bathhouse resort in Quebec. On June 9, 2014, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) chose Bromont as the site of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games.Canada to host 2018 World Equestrian Games The main venue for the games was supposed to be the Bromont Olympic Equestrian Park.
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In 1801 he published The Myrtle and Vine, or Complete Vocal Library, containing several Thousands of Songs with an Essay on Singing and Song-writing'advertisement on cover of 'Balnea,' 3rd ed. In the summer of 1807 he was in London giving a series of entertainments, but he died suddenly of paralysis, aged 64, and was buried at the cost of friends.Gent.Mag.vol.lxxvii.pt.ii.pp. 781-782 An edition of his Old Women Weatherwise, in the form of a penny or halfpenny chap-book, was printed at Hull, without a date, but believed to be as late as 1825.
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The book is believed to be the work of a Carthusian monk. It has been the subject of many conjectural attributions. An index to the catalogue of Syon Abbey made by Thomas Betson around 1504 (though he based his work on earlier materials) attributes Speculum spiritualium to 'Adam monachus Cartusiensis' (not the same as Adam of Dryburgh); hence John Bale called the author of the book 'Adam the Carthusian', attributing four other works to this identity, all of which are now known to be the work of other writers. Henry de Balnea was invented by Thomas Tanner as another author for the work.
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Such was the importance of baths to Romans that a catalog of buildings in Rome from 354 AD documented 952 baths of varying sizes in the city. Although wealthy Romans might set up a bath in their townhouses or in their country villas, heating a series of rooms or even a separate building especially for this purpose, and soldiers might have a bathhouse provided at their fort (as at Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, or at Bearsden fort), they still often frequented the numerous public bathhouses in the cities and towns throughout the empire. Small bathhouses, called balneum (plural balnea), might be privately owned, while they were public in the sense that they were open to the populace for a fee. Larger baths called thermae were owned by the state and often covered several city blocks.
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