Rome, Pollution and Propriety : Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
British School at Rome Studies
ISBN-10
1107014433
ISBN-13
9781107014435
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 26th, 2012
Print length
342 Pages
Weight
752 grams
Dimensions
25.10 x 17.30 x 2.20 cms
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This book brings together scholars from several 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, from early Roman urban development through to the advent of Fascism.
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.
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