Policing the urban environment in premodern Europe /:

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 man...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- (HerausgeberIn), Weeda, Claire (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:Premodern crime and punishment ; 1.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048536221
9048536227