{"id":102,"date":"2018-05-07T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:12:49","slug":"new-article-by-janna-coomans-the-king-of-dirt-public-health-and-sanitation-in-late-medieval-ghent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"New Article by Janna Coomans: &#8220;The king of dirt: public health and sanitation in late medieval Ghent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: Taking the office of the\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">coninc der ribauden<\/span>\u00a0in Ghent as a case-study, this article reconstructs the enforcement of urban sanitation and preventative health practices during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">coninc<\/span>\u00a0managed a wide range of issues perceived as potentially polluting, damaging or threatening to health. Banning waste and chasing pigs as well as prostitutes off the streets, the office implemented a governmental vision on communal well-being. Health interests, as part of a broader pursuit of the common good, therefore played an important yet hitherto largely overlooked role in medieval urban governance.<\/p>\n<p>You can have access to Janna Coomans&#8217; article through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/urban-history\/article\/king-of-dirt-public-health-and-sanitation-in-late-medieval-ghent\/B730B9F9E0B88C4D88B9607BF36A73EA#\">Cambridge University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Taking the office of the\u00a0coninc der ribauden\u00a0in Ghent as a case-study, this article reconstructs the enforcement of urban sanitation and preventative health practices during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The\u00a0coninc\u00a0managed a wide range of issues perceived as potentially polluting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"item_id":"","pf_source_link":"","item_date":"","item_author":"","item_link":"","item_feat_img":"","item_wp_date":"","item_tags":"","source_publication_name":"","source_publication_url":"","nomination_count":"","sortable_item_date":"","item_description":"","pf_word_count":"","pf_forward_to_origin":"no-forward","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"nominators":[],"archiveOrgStatus":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1010377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}