Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe /

Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe / / 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 preconcept...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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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

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