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- Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
- Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency, Wages and Dates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Galenic Health and the Biopolitics of Flow
- 2 The Purged Urban Heart
- 3 Food, Health and the Marketplace
- 4 Good Neighbours
- 5 Plague in Urban Healthscapes
- 6 Building Community, Balancing Public Health and Order
- Conclusion Urban Health Expeditions
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Good Neighbours
Nuisance and Harmony in Living Environments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2021
- Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
- Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency, Wages and Dates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Galenic Health and the Biopolitics of Flow
- 2 The Purged Urban Heart
- 3 Food, Health and the Marketplace
- 4 Good Neighbours
- 5 Plague in Urban Healthscapes
- 6 Building Community, Balancing Public Health and Order
- Conclusion Urban Health Expeditions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
shifts the perspective to the collective initiatives of inhabitants to secure health in their living and working environments. Those who lived in proximity to one another often shared infrastructures and hygienic routines. Court cases featuring neighbourly disputes reveal how inhabitants routinely tried to secure access to fresh water and hygienic domestic facilities such as cesspits, drainage pipes and latrines, and sought to ban stench and other nuisances from living environments. Expressed in a discourse revolving around damage and disturbance, local well-being – a “good neighbourhood” – was guaranteed by combining social harmony and material or infrastructural functionality, and resulted in forms of community formation and civic participation.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021