Rome, pollution, and propriety
dirt, disease, and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity
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Author
Publication
2012 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107014435
- ISBN-101107014433
- Library of Congress Control Number2012010804
- OCLC Control Number759181196
- Better World Books9781107014435
and 2 more
- Better World BooksKQ-810-130
- Open LibraryOL25253324M
Classifications
- DDC363.7309456/32
- LCCTD80.R65 R66 2012
Description
"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"--
Subjects
Series Statement
- British School at Rome studies
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