Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rawcliffe, Carole; Weeda, Claire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040791271
• Artikelnr.: 75562589

Autorenporträt

Carole Rawcliffe is Professor Emerita of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of many books and articles on health, medicine and disease in the Middle Ages, especially in an urban context. Claire Weeda works as an assistant professor at the History Department of Leiden University. She is specialized in ethnic identity, medicine, and community formation in the period 1100-1500.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda, 1 Cleanliness, Civility,
and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts Claire Weeda 2 The View from
the Street: The Records of Hundred and Leet Courts as a Source for Sanitary
Policing in Late Medieval English Towns Carole Rawcliffe 3 Urban Viarii and
the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy G.
Geltner 4 Food Offenders: Public Health and the Marketplace in the Late
Medieval Low Countries Janna Coomans 5 Policing the Environment of Late
Medieval Dordrecht Patrick Naaktgeboren 6 Muddy Waters in Medieval
Montpellier Catherine Dubé and Geneviève Dumas 7 Regulating Water Sources
in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy Elma Brenner 8 Policing
the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns: A Preliminary
Approach Annemarie Kinzelbach 9 Official Objectives of the Visitatio
Leprosorum: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Variance Luke Demaitre, Index