Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities

The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study.

List of contents

Introduction
Less Mud-Slinging and More Facts
Urban Bodies and Urban Souls
Environmental Health
Water
Food and Drink
Sickness and Debility
Conclusion
Appendix: National and Urban Epidemics 1257-1530
Bibliography

About the author

Carole Rawcliffe

Product details

• Authors: Carole Rawcliffe
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2019
• EAN: 9781783273812
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-381-2
• No. of pages: 445
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 231 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages