Policing the urban environment in premodern Europe / edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- editor.

Weeda, Claire, editor.

Series:

Premodern crime and punishment.

Premodern crime and punishment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development, Urban--Europe--History--To 1500.

Community development, Urban.

Rural development--Europe--History--To 1500.

Rural development.

Cities and towns, Medieval--Europe.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

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

1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts

2. The View from the Streets

3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy

4. Food Offenders

5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht

6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier

7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy

8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns

9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

1-003-70158-2

90-485-3622-7

9781003701583

OCLC:

1105199819