Roads to health : infrastructure and urban wellbeing in later medieval Italy / G. Geltner.

Main entry:

Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974- author.

Title & Author:

Roads to health : infrastructure and urban wellbeing in later medieval Italy / G. Geltner.

Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

x, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

The Middle Ages series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In 'Roads to Health', G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental hazards urban communities faced: latrines improperly installed and sewers blocked; animals left to roam free and carcasses left rotting on public byways; and thoroughfares congested by artisanal and commercial activities that impeded circulation, polluted waterways, and raised miasmas. However, as Geltner shows, numerous administrative records also offer ample evidence of the concrete measures cities took to ameliorate unhealthy conditions. Toiling on the frontlines were public functionaries generally known as viarii, or "road-masters," appointed to maintain their community's infrastructures and police pertinent human and animal behavior. Operating on a parallel track were the camparii, or "field-masters," charged with protecting the city's hinterlands and thereby the quality of what would reach urban markets, taverns, ovens, and mills.

ISBN:

9780812251357 hardcover alkaline paper
0812251350 hardcover alkaline paper

Subject:

Urban health Italy History To 1500 Case studies.
Public health Italy History To 1500 Case studies.
Public health laws Italy History To 1500 Case studies.
City dwellers Health and hygiene Italy History To 1500 Case studies.
Medicine, Medieval.
Urban Health history
Public Health history
Health Planning history
History, Medieval
Médecine médiévale.
44.01 history of medicine.
MEDICAL / Public Health.
Public health
Public health laws
Social conditions
Urban health
Infrastruktur
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Lucca (Italy) Social conditions To 1500.
Bologna (Italy) Social conditions To 1500.
Pinerolo (Italy) Social conditions To 1500.
Italy
Italy Bologna
Italy Lucca
Italy Pinerolo
Italien

Form/genre:

Case Reports
Case studies
History
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Middle Ages series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308137
Call No.: BIB 253583
Status: Available

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