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Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries / Janna Coomans.
Loaned to Another Library RA427 .C634 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coomans, Janna, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought: fourth series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Europe.
- Public health.
- Community health services.
- Public health--Environmental aspects.
- Public health--Political aspects.
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Public health--Social aspects--Europe.
- Public health--Political aspects--Europe.
- Public health--Environmental aspects--Europe.
- Community health services--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease. Based on new archival research and adopting a biopolitical and spatial-material approach, Coomans traces how cities developed a broad range of practices to protect themselves and fight disease. Urban societies negotiated challenges to their collective health in the face of social, political and environmental change, transforming ideas on civic duties and the common good. Tasks were divided among different groups, including town governments, neighbours and guilds, and affected a wide range of areas, from water, fire and food to pigs, prostitutes and plague. By studying these efforts in the round, Coomans offers new comparative insights and bolsters our understanding of the importance of population health and the physical world - infrastructures, flora and fauna - in governing medieval cities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Galenic health and the biopolitics of flow
- The purged urban heart: municipal sanitation
- Food, health and the marketplace
- Good neighbors: nuisance and harmony in living environments
- Plague in urban healthscapes
- Building comuunity, balancing public heath and order
- Conclusion: urban health expeditions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-330) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108831772
- 110883177X
- 9781108927161
- 1108927165
- OCLC:
- 1225287585
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