Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low - Countrie

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Galenic Health and the Biopolitics of Flow; 2. The Purged Urban Heart: Municipal Sanitation; 3. Food, Health and the Marketplace; 4. Good Neighbours: Nuisance and Harmony in Living Environments; 5. Plague in Urban Healthscapes; 6. Building Community, Balancing Public Health and Order; Conclusion: Urban Health Expeditions.

About the author

Janna Coomans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project 'Healthscaping Urban Europe'. She obtained her PhD on public health in the medieval Low Countries cum laude, which received the Praemium Erasmianum and Pro Civitate prizes. Her main research interests are the history of cities, health and environments, as well as gender, crime and daily politics.

Summary

Debunking the myth of medieval cities as apathetic in the face of filth and disease, Janna Coomans builds a new understanding of how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, with responsibilities negotiated among different groups, across areas ranging from water, food and sanitation to pigs, prostitutes and plague.

Product details

• Authors: Janna Coomans, Janna (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Coomans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108831772
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83177-2
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, CE period up to c 1500, Western Europe, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Western Continental Europe