Rome, Pollution and Propriety - Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British School at Rome Studies
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	September 2012
Editors:	Mark Bradley
As told to:	Kenneth Stow
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01443-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-107-01443-3
Barcode:	9781107014435

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