Date : 2019
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-94-6298-519-3
EAN : 9789462985193
Santé en milieu urbain -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Moyen âge
Santé publique -- Europe de l'Ouest -- 1492-1648
Espace (économie politique) -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Histoire
Croissance urbaine -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Histoire
Classification Dewey : 940.1
Collection : Premodern crime and punishment / Guy Geltner / Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019-
Résumé / Abstract : "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"