Coomans | Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries | Buch | 978-1-108-92716-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

Coomans

Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries


Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-92716-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

ISBN: 978-1-108-92716-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press


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 bio-political 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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Introduction; 1. Galenic Health and the Biopolitics of Flow; 2. The Purged Urban Heart: Municipal Sanitation; 3. Food, Health and the Marketplace; 4. Good Neighbours: Nuisance and Harmony in Living Environments; 5. Plague in Urban Healthscapes; 6. Building Community, Balancing Public Health and Order; Conclusion: Urban Health Expeditions.


Coomans, Janna
Janna Coomans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project 'Healthscaping Urban Europe'. She obtained her PhD on public health in the medieval Low Countries cum laude, which received the Praemium Erasmianum and Pro Civitate prizes. Her main research interests are the history of cities, health and environments, as well as gender, crime and daily politics.



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