ID - 53369540 TI - Policing the urban environment in premodern Europe AU - Rawcliffe, Carole AU - Weeda, Claire PY - 2019 VL - 1 SN - 9789462985193 9462985197 9789048536221 9048536227 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Community development, Urban KW - Community development, Urban. KW - Government policy. KW - Health Policy KW - Public Health KW - Public health KW - Public health. KW - Rural development KW - Rural development. KW - Social Conditions KW - History. KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Social aspects. KW - Europe, Western KW - Europe. KW - Western Europe. KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1200-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - urban history KW - urban development KW - Cities and towns, Medieval KW - Medieval cities and towns KW - Community development, Rural KW - Development, Rural KW - Integrated rural development KW - Regional development KW - Rehabilitation, Rural KW - Rural community development KW - Rural economic development KW - Agriculture and state KW - Community development KW - Economic development KW - Regional planning KW - Community programs, Urban KW - Neighborhood improvement programs KW - Urban community development KW - Urban economic development KW - City planning KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Citizen participation KW - Government policy KW - Medieval urban history - medieval public health - medieval biopower - medieval religious culture - medieval environmental history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:53369540 AB - 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. ER -