摘要
Bathing, particularly thermal baths, which were therapeutic, but also cold baths, became an occasion for social gatherings in late-medieval Catalonia, especially among the elite. It had the sanction of the prestigious university medicine, but it was nevertheless an activity condemned by moralists, a situation that is frequently reflected in literary works. The characteristics of the medical literature market account for the absence of specialised treatises on this subject during this period. En el contexto catal芍n de los 迆ltimos siglos medievales, la cultura del ba o, especialmente del ba o termal, terap谷utico, pero tambi谷n del ba o fr赤o, fue ocasi車n, sobre todo entre las 谷lites, para la sociabilidad, bendecida por el apoyo de la prestigiosa medicina universitaria, pero tambi谷n dio lugar a constantes ataques de los moralistas, mientras todo ello proporcionaba abundante material para la creaci車n literaria. Las caracter赤sticas del mercado de demanda de literatura m谷dica explicar赤an la ausencia de una tratad赤stica m谷dica especializada en el particular durante este per赤odo.