Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries
Janna Coomans
Bok Engelsk 2021
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| Omfang | XIV, 334 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "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"--
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| Emner | Community health services - Europe
Public health - Environmental aspects - Europe Public health - Political aspects - Europe Public health - Social aspects - Europe Vis mer... Public health - Europe
Byer : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09039 Forurensning : (NO-TrBIB)HUME08345 Middelalderen : (NO-TrBIB)HUME10901 Renslighet : (NO-TrBIB)HUME19973 Sanitæranlegg : (NO-TrBIB)HUME14300 Helsetjenester Sosiale forhold Europa Historie |
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| ISBN | 9781108831772. - 9781108927161
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