Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe Hardback
Edited by Carole Rawcliffe, Claire Weeda
Part of the Premodern Crime and Punishment series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2019
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- ISBN:9789462985193
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 12 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9789462985193
