Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe

Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe

Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, *Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe* offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Figures and Charts
  • Introduction
    • Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda
  • 1. Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts
    • Claire Weeda
  • 2. The View from the Streets
    • The Records of Hundred and Leet Courts as a Source for Sanitary Policing in Late Medieval English Towns
      • Carole Rawcliffe
  • 3. Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy
    • G. Geltner
  • 4. Food Offenders
    • Public Health and the Marketplace in the Late Medieval Low Countries
      • Janna Coomans
  • 5. Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht
    • Patrick Naaktgeboren
  • 6. Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier
    • Catherine Dubé and Geneviève Dumas
  • 7. Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy
    • Elma Brenner
  • 8. Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns
    • A Preliminary Approach
      • Annemarie Kinzelbach
  • 9. Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum
    • Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Variance
      • Luke Demaitre
  • Index
  • List of Illustrations
    • Frontispiece: Map of towns and cities featured in this volume
    • 1. The value of mountain air illustrated in a fourteenth-century vernacular regimen sanitatis
    • 1.1. The benefits of pure water from a well-illustrated fourteenth-century vernacular regimen sanitatis
    • 4.1. View of the Fish Market in Leiden (c. 1600), oil on panel by an anonymous artist. The waste bin, which is first mentioned in fifteenth-century records, is depicted to the right of the centre.
    • 5.1. Map of the river delta
    • 5.2. Map of Dordrecht in c. 1600
    • 6.1. Map of Montpellier in 1665, showing the three hills on which it was built
    • 6.2. Location of the most important common wells in medieval Montpellier
    • 6.3. Public fountains in Montpellier in the fifteenth century
    • 7.1. Engraving of the fountain of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, by Polyclès Langlois, dated 1835
    • 7.2. Plan of the course of the Gaalor water source, showing (top centre) the priory church of Saint-Lô with its fountain, in the Livre des fontaines of Jacques Le Lieur, completed in 1525
    • 8.1. Ruined leprosy complex with tree stumps, Nördlingen, 1647
  • List of Figures and Charts
    • Fig. 3.1. General distribution of charges in a selection of registers, 1300-1379
    • Fig. 3.2. Distribution of charges in a selection of registers, 1300-1379
    • Figure 4.2. Ypres, Rôles de condamnations (1267, 1280, and 1281)
    • Figure 5.1: Urban development of Dordrecht
    • Figure 5.2: Population density (estimated population and hectares)
    • Chart 9.1. Geographical distribution of tallied records
    • Chart 9.2. Gender of individuals recorded as having been examined (percentages of the 530 total)
    • Chart 9.3. Chronological distribution (530 examinations in total)
    • Chart 9.4. Chronological distribution by percentages
    • Chart 9.5. Chronological distribution of examinations by region
    • Chart 9.6. Verdicts resulting from a visitatio (percentages of the 530 total)
    • Chart 9.11. Cologne gendered verdicts
    • Chart 9.14. Montferrand gendered verdicts
    • Charts 9.7 and 9.8. Verdicts by gender (percentages of the 530 total)
    • Charts 9.9 and 9.10. Gendered verdicts by region
    • Charts 9.12 and 9.13. Cologne verdicts by gender
    • Charts 9.15 and 9.16. Montferrand verdicts by gender
    • Charts 9.17 and 9.18. French verdicts by gender without Montferrand

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