Rome, Pollution and Propriety

Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
Herausgeber: Bradley, Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the unification of Italy and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014435
• ISBN-10: 1107014433
• Artikelnr.: 35407485

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Mark Bradley and Kenneth Stow; Part I. Antiquity: 1.
Approaches to pollution and propriety Mark Bradley; 2. Pollution, religion
and society in the Roman world Jack Lennon; 3. Purification in ancient Rome
Elaine Fantham; 4. Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome
Penelope Davies; 5. The 'sacred sewer': tradition and religion in the
Cloaca Maxima John Hopkins; 6. Crime and punishment on the Capitoline Hill
Mark Bradley; 7. On the burial of unchaste Vestal Virgins Celia Schultz;
Part II. Modernity: 8. Fra Girolamo Savonarola and the aesthetics of Roman
pollution Alessio Assonitis; 9. Purging filth: plague and responses to it
in Rome, 1656-7 David Gentilcore; 10. Was the ghetto cleaner...? Kenneth
Stow; 11. Urban ablutions: cleansing counter-reformation Rome Katherine
Rinne; 12. The clash of picturesque decay and modern cleanliness in late
nineteenth-century Rome Taina Syrjämaa; 13. Vile bodies: Victorian
Protestants in the Roman catacombs Dominic Janes; 14. Delinquency and
pederasty: 'deviant' youngsters in the suburbs of Fascist Rome Martina
Salvante; Envoi. Purity and danger: its life and afterlife Judith
Goldstein.