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Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe

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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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ISBN: 9789462985193
Publication date: 28th May 2019
Author: Guy (University of Amsterdam) Geltner, Janna (University of Amsterdam) Coomans
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 318 pages
Series: Premodern Crime and Punishment
Genres: History and Archaeology