Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe / / ed. by Claire Weeda, Carole Rawcliffe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Brenner, Elma,; Coomans, Janna,; Demaitre, Luke,; Dubé, Catherine,; Dumas, Geneviève,; Geltner, G.,; Kinzelbach, Annemarie,; Naaktgeboren, Patrick,; Rawcliffe, Carole,; Weeda, Claire,
• HerausgeberIn: Rawcliffe, Carole,; Weeda, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Premodern Crime and Punishment ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Figures and Charts --; Introduction --; 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts --; 2. The View from the Streets --; 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy --; 4. Food Offenders --; 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht --; 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier --; 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy --; 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns --; 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048536221; 9783110661521; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610178; 9783110606195
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048536221?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Claire Weeda, Carole Rawcliffe.

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.