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- Title
Healthscaping a medieval city: Lucca's Curia viarum and the future of public health history.
- Authors
GELTNER, G.
- Abstract
In early fourteenth-century Lucca, one government organ began expanding its activities beyond the maintenance of public works to promoting public hygiene and safety, and in ways that suggest both a concern for and an appreciation of population-level preventative healthcare. Evidence for this shift (which is traceable in and beyond the Italian peninsula) is mostly found in documents of practice such as court and financial records, which augment and complicate the traditional view afforded by urban statutes and medical treatises. The revised if still nebulous picture emerging from this preliminary study challenges a lingering tendency among urban and public health historians to see pre-modern European cities as ignorant and apathetic demographic black holes.
- Subjects
LUCCA (Italy); ITALY; PUBLIC health; MEDIEVAL cities &; towns; CITIES &; towns; HISTORY of public health; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); LAW; PREVENTIVE medicine; STATUTES; ADMINISTRATIVE courts; ITALIAN politics &; government, 1268-1559; HISTORY; LEGAL history; URBAN history
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 3, p395
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926813000321