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- Title
The English Medieval Urban Environment Before the Black Death: Learned Views and Popular Practice.
- Authors
Davis, Miriam C.
- Abstract
The article discusses learned views and popular practice about cleanliness in English medieval towns prior to the outbreak of the Black Death. It highlights a theoretical conception of sanitation in medieval learned opinion. Included in medieval medical theory is the threat posed to human health by certain environmental conditions. It cites ancient and Islamic sources for providing Western medieval physicians with an explanation of disease which drew a connection between bad air and disease. Maintaining sanitary conditions reportedly continued until the 16th century thru a series of injunctions by royal authority enjoining civic governments.
- Subjects
BLACK Death pandemic, 1348-1351; MEDIEVAL medicine; MEDIEVAL cities &; towns; RURAL sanitation; RURAL health; RURAL waste management; RURAL sewage disposal
- Publication
Medieval Perspectives, 1998, Vol 13, p69
- ISSN
1057-5367
- Publication type
Article