Achille Lauro
Arne Zuidhoek
Carole Rawcliffe, Claire Weeda (red.)
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 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.
Redacteuren
Carole Rawcliffe
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
Claire Weeda is cultuurhistoricus verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden. Ze schrijft over de omgang met natuur en klimaat, publieke gezondheid, arbeid en raciaal kapitalisme in Europa tussen de twaalfde en zestiende eeuw.
- Titel
- Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe
- Redacteuren
- Carole Rawcliffe
- Claire Weeda
- Prijs
- € 146,00
- ISBN
- 9789462985193
- Uitvoering
- Hardback
- Aantal pagina's
- 318
- Publicatiedatum
- 28 - 05 - 2019
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Serie
- Premodern Crime and Punishment
- Categorieën
- Early Modern Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- High Middle Ages
- Politics and Government
- Sociology and Social History
- Urban Cultures
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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- Download introductie en inhoudsopgave
- Ook beschikbaar als
- eBook PDF - € 145,99
Recensies
"This excellent collection of essays addresses the enforcement of urban public health measures and sanitary regulations in premodern Europe. [...] In scope, the chapters cover much of Latin Christendom--Italy, France, the Low Countries, England, and the Holy Roman Empire--and focus primarily on the period from the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. This breadth of coverage serves to illuminate the many commonalities in sanitary measures, while individual case studies showcase local or regional particularities. The essays themselves are in English, but the bibliographies provide a valuable guide to primary sources and urban environmental scholarship across a variety of languages."
- Roberta Magnusson, The Medieval Review, 21.05.11 (2021)
"This interesting collection considers how urban polities across Europe in the premodern era managed concerns with urban hygiene, public health, and environmental protections. As the title suggests, legislative measures that were encoded in statute legislation in some cities from as early as the twelfth century showed significant concern for maintenance of the built environment, enforced through the appointment of officials whose remit became more specialized over time. A close relationship is revealed between statute rules that appear to have a primary function in the beautification or improvement of the urban fabric but do so through measures that improved sanitation and sought to reduce the transmission of disease."
- Fabrizio Nevola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXIV, No. 4 (2021)
"This collection of essays not only provides new insights but also provokes important questions. In addition, the rich bibliographies following each chapter and the useful index will undoubtedly help to advance our knowledge of this much-neglected but, not surprisingly, very 'live' topic of research."
- Marc Boone, Speculum, Vol. 97, No. 3 (2022)
- Roberta Magnusson, The Medieval Review, 21.05.11 (2021)
"This interesting collection considers how urban polities across Europe in the premodern era managed concerns with urban hygiene, public health, and environmental protections. As the title suggests, legislative measures that were encoded in statute legislation in some cities from as early as the twelfth century showed significant concern for maintenance of the built environment, enforced through the appointment of officials whose remit became more specialized over time. A close relationship is revealed between statute rules that appear to have a primary function in the beautification or improvement of the urban fabric but do so through measures that improved sanitation and sought to reduce the transmission of disease."
- Fabrizio Nevola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXIV, No. 4 (2021)
"This collection of essays not only provides new insights but also provokes important questions. In addition, the rich bibliographies following each chapter and the useful index will undoubtedly help to advance our knowledge of this much-neglected but, not surprisingly, very 'live' topic of research."
- Marc Boone, Speculum, Vol. 97, No. 3 (2022)
