Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe

Carole Rawcliffe is Professor Emerita of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of many books and articles on health, medicine and disease in the Middle Ages, especially in an urban context. Claire Weeda works as an assistant professor at the History Department of Leiden University. She is specialized in ethnic identity, medicine, and community formation in the period 1100-1500.

• Introduction Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda, 1 Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts Claire Weeda 2 The View from the Street: The Records of Hundred and Leet Courts as a Source for Sanitary Policing in Late Medieval English Towns Carole Rawcliffe 3 Urban Viarii and the Prosecution of Public Health Offenders in Late Medieval Italy G. Geltner 4 Food Offenders: Public Health and the Marketplace in the Late Medieval Low Countries Janna Coomans 5 Policing the Environment of Late Medieval Dordrecht Patrick Naaktgeboren 6 Muddy Waters in Medieval Montpellier Catherine Dubé and Geneviève Dumas 7 Regulating Water Sources in the Towns and Cities of Late Medieval Normandy Elma Brenner 8 Policing the Environment in Premodern Imperial Cities and Towns: A Preliminary Approach Annemarie Kinzelbach 9 Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Variance Luke Demaitre, Index