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Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe /

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 preconce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Weeda, Claire (Editor ), Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Premodern crime and punishment ; 1.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048536221
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.