Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe
Carole Rawcliffe, Claire Weeda · 2019
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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"-- Back cover.
Book details
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN
- 9789462985193
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