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  3. Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe
Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:
November 2020
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9789048536221
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048536221
Subjects:
Regional and World History: General Interest, History
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Book 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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