Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946-
Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2013.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-409) and index.
• Introduction — Less mud-slinging and more facts — Urban bodies and urban souls — Environmental health — Water — Food and drink — Sickness and debility — Conclusion — Appendix : national and urban epicemics, 1257-1530.
• This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during the golden age of bacteria . Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor. –P. [4] of cover.

Subjects:

• Urban health — England — History — To 1500.
• Medical care — England — History — To 1500.
• Medicine, Medieval — England.
• Cities and towns, Medieval — England.
• Public Health — history — England.
• Cities — history — England.
• Health Services — history — England.
• History, Medieval — England.
• Sanitation — history — England.
• Urban Health — history — England.

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