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

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Title
"Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries"
Statement of Responsibility
Janna Coomans
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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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"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-330) and index

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