Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Weeda, Claire (Editor), Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Premodern crime and punishment ; 1.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural development > Europe, Western.
Community development, Urban > Europe, Western.
Public health > Social aspects > Europe, Western > History.
Public health > Europe, Western > History.
Europe, Western > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda
  • Cleanliness, civility, and the city in medieval ideals and scripts / Claire Weeda
  • The view from the streets : the records of Hundred and Leet Courts as a source for sanitary policing in late medieval English towns / Carole Rawcliffe
  • Urban viarii and the prosecution of public health offenders in late medieval Italy / G. Geltner
  • Food offenders : public health and the marketplace in the late medieval Low Countries / Janna Coomans
  • Policing the environment of late medieval Dordrecht / Patrick Naaktgeboren
  • Muddy waters in medieval Montpellier / Catherine Dube and Genevieve Dumas
  • Regulating water sources in the towns and cities of late medieval Normandy / Elma Brenner
  • Policing the environment in premodern imperial cities and towns : a preliminary approach / Annemarie Kinzelbach
  • Official objectives of the visitatio leprosorum : ambiguity, ambivalence, and variance / Luke Demaitre.

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