Jordanian Union Catalogue

Search Libraries Catalogue

Search

Options

Refine

Start Over

Show details

Duplicate Items

Add to My List

Print

Sorts and Limits

Sorts:

Title: Rome, pollution, and propriety : dirt, disease, and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity / edited by Mark Bradley with Kenneth Stow.
British School at Rome studies
Author: Bradley, Mark, 1977-
Stow, Kenneth R.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-309) and index.
"Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the Unification of Italy and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled"-- Provided by publisher.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place: Cambridge :
ISBN: 9781107014435 (hbk.)
Subject: Urban sanitation -- Italy -- Rome -- History.
Public health -- Italy -- Rome -- History.
Pollution -- Italy -- Rome -- History.
Quality of life -- Rome -- History.
Series: British School at Rome studies
Physical Description: xx, 320 pages : illustrations ;

Electronic Location: http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/14435/cover/9781107014435.jpg

Publication Date: 2012.

	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Copy:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	JU Main Library	General	363.730945632 R763	Normal Circulation	Available	1	JUF0769086	Book