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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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