Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries /

Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries /

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Author / Creator:	Coomans, Janna, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xiv, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought: fourth series Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought.
Subject:	Public health -- Europe. Public health -- Social aspects -- Europe. Public health -- Political aspects -- Europe. Public health -- Environmental aspects -- Europe. Community health services -- Europe. Community health services. Public health. Public health -- Environmental aspects. Public health -- Political aspects. Public health -- Social aspects. Europe.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12662770

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ISBN:	9781108831772 110883177X 9781108927161 1108927165 9781108924344 9781108934855
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-330) and index.
Summary:	"By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease. Based on new archival research and adopting a biopolitical and spatial-material approach, Coomans traces how cities developed a broad range of practices to protect themselves and fight disease. Urban societies negotiated challenges to their collective health in the face of social, political and environmental change, transforming ideas on civic duties and the common good. Tasks were divided among different groups, including town governments, neighbours and guilds, and affected a wide range of areas, from water, fire and food to pigs, prostitutes and plague. By studying these efforts in the round, Coomans offers new comparative insights and bolsters our understanding of the importance of population health and the physical world - infrastructures, flora and fauna - in governing medieval cities"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108934855

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