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Darrera modificació: 2018-12-21
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Hunt, Will, "Of Cesspits and Sewers: Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland", Archaeology, (2019), (publ. electrònica).
- Resum
- Van Oosten is a connoisseur of muck. She has spent the last decade sifting through the cesspits and sewers of medieval European cities, studying how people of the late Middle Ages managed their waste. In society's relationship to its so-called “foul matter,” she has uncovered surprisingly intimate details of medieval life. In long-overlooked municipal archives on sanitary infrastructure, she has tapped into civic attitudes to dirt and waste. With a latrine's-eye view of history, van Oosten, along with other scholars, is now challenging the popular vision that the streets of late medieval Leiden—or London, or Paris, or Bruges, or any other sizable city of the time—were dark, gloomy quagmires. In fact, van Oosten says, the humble brick cesspits that characterized urban medieval life in cities such as Leiden were relatively hygienic. It wasn't until cesspits gave way to sewer-based infrastructure in the early modern era that the relationship between the citizens of Leiden and their waste turned truly foul.
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- Arqueologia
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- URL
- https://www.archaeology.org/issues/327-1901/letter- ...
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