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Policing the urban environment in premodern Europe / edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda.

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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 man...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- (Editor), Weeda, Claire (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Community development, Urban > Europe, Western.
Europe, Western > Government policy.
Rural development > Europe, Western.
Community development, Urban.
Government policy.
Rural development.
Western Europe.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Figures and Charts
  • Introduction / Rawcliffe, Carole / Weeda, Claire
  • 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts / Weeda, Claire
  • 2. The View from the Streets / Rawcliffe, Carole
  • 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy / Geltner, G.
  • 4. Food Offenders / Coomans, Janna
  • 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht / Naaktgeboren, Patrick
  • 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier / Dubé, Catherine / Dumas, Geneviève
  • 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy / Brenner, Elma
  • 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns / Kinzelbach, Annemarie
  • 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum / Demaitre, Luke
  • Index.

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