(Source: Amsterdam University Press)
Amsterdam University Press has published a new
book on the attempts by public authorities in premodern Europe to create a
clean, healthy environment.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Carole Rawcliffe
Carole Rawcliffe is Professor Emerita of
Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of many
books and articles on health, medicine and disease in the Middle Ages,
especially in an urban context.
Claire Weeda
Claire Weeda works as an assistant
professor at the History Department of Leiden University. She is specialized in
ethnic identity, medicine, and community formation in the period 1100-1500.
The introduction and table of contents can be
found here
More information here
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