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Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe / ed. by Claire Weeda, Carole Rawcliffe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Premodern Crime and Punishment ; 1Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048536221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures and Charts -- Introduction -- 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts -- 2. The View from the Streets -- 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy -- 4. Food Offenders -- 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht -- 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier -- 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy -- 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns -- 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum -- Index
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048536221

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures and Charts -- Introduction -- 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts -- 2. The View from the Streets -- 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy -- 4. Food Offenders -- 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht -- 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier -- 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy -- 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns -- 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)