Title & Author:

Rome, pollution, and propriety : dirt, disease, and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity / edited by Mark Bradley with Kenneth Stow.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Description:

xx, 320 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

British School at Rome studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-309) and index.
Introduction / Mark Bradley and Kenneth Stow -- Approaches to pollution and propriety / Mark Bradley -- Pollution, religion and society in the Roman world / Jack Lennon -- Purification in ancient Rome / Elaine Fantham -- Pollution, propriety and urbanism in republican Rome / Penelope J.E. Davies -- The 'sacred sewer': tradition and religion in the Cloaca Maxima / John Hopkins -- Crime and punishment on the Capitoline Hill / Mark Bradley -- On the burial of unchaste Vestal Virgins / Celia Schultz -- Fra Girolamo Savonarola and the aesthetics of Roman pollution in fifteenth-century Rome / Alessio Assonitis -- Purging filth: plague and responses to it in Rome, 1656-7 / David Gentilcore -- Was the ghetto cleaner ...? / Kenneth Stow -- Urban ablutions: cleansing counter-reformation Rome / Katherine Rinne -- The clash of picturesque decay and modern cleanliness in late nineteenth-century Rome / Taina Syrjämaa -- Vile bodies: Victorian Protestants in the Roman catacombs / Dominic Janes --Delinquency and pederasty: 'deviant' youngsters in the suburbs of Fascist Rome / Martina Salvante -- Envoi. Purity and danger: its life and afterlife / Judith L. Goldstein.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the Unification of Italy and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781107014435 (hardback)
1107014433 (hardback)
9781316626597 (paperback)
1316626598 (paperback)
9781139531887
1139531883

Subject:

Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe
Bibel Römerbrief
Urban sanitation Italy Rome History.
Public health Italy Rome History.
Pollution Italy Rome History.
Quality of life Rome History.
Roman World history
Public Health history
Homosexuality history
Salubrité urbaine Italie Rome Histoire.
Santé publique Italie Rome Histoire.
Pollution Italie Rome Histoire.
Qualité de la vie Rome Histoire.
HISTORY Ancient General.
Environment and ecology.
Pollution.
Public health.
Quality of life.
Urban sanitation.
Hygiene
Krankheit
Verschmutzung
Abfall
Italy Rome.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bradley, Mark, 1977-
Stow, Kenneth R.
British School at Rome studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283985
Call No.: BIB 222527
Status: Available