You are warmly invited to attend the symposium and book launch of Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe<\/em>, edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 14.00-14.40| Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia) 14.50-15.30| Fritz Dross (Institut f\u00fcr Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin) 15.30-15.50| Coffee and Tea Break<\/p>\n 15.50-16.30| Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University) 16.30-17.00| Claire Weeda (Leiden University) The event will be followed by drinks from 17.00 at Caf\u00e9 Luxembourg (Spui 24, Amsterdam).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe<\/em>, ed. by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda, is published by Amsterdam University Press in the series Premodern Crime and Punishment.<\/p>\n Contributors: Elma Brenner, Janna Coomans, Luke Demaitre, Catherine Dub\u00e9, Genevi\u00e8ve Dumas, G. Geltner, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Patrick Naaktgeboren, Carole Rawcliffe, Claire Weeda.<\/p>\n Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe<\/em> offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, 20 June 2019, 14:00-17:00 Bushuis, F2.08B (Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam) You are warmly invited to attend the symposium and book launch of Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe, edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda. Program Symposium 14.00-14.40| … Continue reading Program Symposium<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nCleaning up the Middle Ages: A Few Words about Policing the Urban Environment<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cPortzel\u201d \u2013 A Premodern Piece on Public Health and Public Order<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBroken Bridges and Crowded Calle: Policing Urban Ideals and Realities in Early Modern Venice<\/em><\/p>\n
\nClosing Remarks<\/em><\/p>\n