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

Debunking the myth of medieval cities as apathetic in the face of filth and disease, Janna Coomans builds a new understanding of how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, with responsibilities negotiated among different groups, across areas ranging from water, food and sanitation to pigs, prostitutes and plague.

• | : Janna Coomans (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 110883177X
• | ISBN-13: 9781108831772