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1 online resource : maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes 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. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures and Charts -- Introduction / Rawcliffe, Carole / Weeda, Claire -- 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts / Weeda, Claire -- 2. The View from the Streets / Rawcliffe, Carole -- 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy / Geltner, G. -- 4. Food Offenders / Coomans, Janna -- 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht / Naaktgeboren, Patrick -- 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier / Dubé, Catherine / Dumas, Geneviève -- 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy / Brenner, Elma -- 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns / Kinzelbach, Annemarie -- 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum / Demaitre, Luke -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community development, Urban -- Europe, Western.
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Community development, Urban. |
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Western Europe. |
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Europe, Western -- Government policy.
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Government policy. |
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Rural development -- Europe, Western.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. |
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Rural development. |
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HISTORY -- Renaissance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- editor.
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Weeda, Claire, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Policing the urban environment in premodern Europe. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2019 318 pages 9789462985193 |
| ISBN |
9789048536221 (electronic book) |
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9048536227 (electronic book) |
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9789462985193 |
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