Roads to health : infrastructure and urban wellbeing in later medieval Italy /

In 'Roads to Health', G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scient...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
To 1500
Urban health > Italy > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Public health > Italy > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Public health laws > Italy > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
City dwellers > Health and hygiene > Italy > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Medicine, Medieval.
Urban Health > history
Public Health > history
Health Planning > history
History, Medieval
Médecine médiévale.
HISTORY > Medieval.
HISTORY / Medieval
Medicine, Medieval
Public health
Public health laws
Social conditions
Urban health
Infrastruktur
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
44.01 history of medicine.
Lucca (Italy) > Social conditions > To 1500.
Bologna (Italy) > Social conditions > To 1500.
Pinerolo (Italy) > Social conditions > To 1500.
Italy
Italy > Bologna
Italy > Lucca
Italy > Pinerolo
Italien
Italy.
Case Reports
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rome, 1306: A Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Roads to Health
  • Chapter 2. Lucca's Viarii
  • Chapter 3. Bologna's Fango Officials
  • Chapter 4. Piedmont's Camparii
  • Chapter 5. Healthscaping in Medieval Europe and the Premodern World
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Fines to Be Imposed by Lucca's Roads Masters
  • Appendix 2. Text and Translation of Vernacular Promulgations by Lucca's Roads Masters.

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