Janna Coomans (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Gebundenes Buch

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831772
• ISBN-10: 110883177X
• Artikelnr.: 60899148