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Digard, Lola F. J., Healing the civic body: Forensic investigation and biopolitical strategies in Flemish towns, 1250-1500, Tesi doctoral de l'Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, 2024, 213 pp.
- Resum
- Peace procedures, called Zoendingen in Dutch sources or Apaisement in French ones, were procedures of reconciliation, used in the County of Flanders from the thirteenth century onwards. At the urban level, they operated as a law court aimed to mediate conflicts between citizens. Many type of altercations could lead to violence, although actors generally fought to protect their honour and status, and that of their kinship group. Peace procedures represented an honorable alternative to violence, which promoted community well-being and social cohesion, by awarding honorable and financial compensations to citizens. The first chapter describes the legal structure of Ghent and Douai, on which this dissertation is focused, to highlight the interests that led urban governments to deploy such legal infrastructures. The next chapter explores the notion of citizenship, to identify how individuals and groups were perceived by urban authorities. Chapter three investigates how the mechanisms of the court could effectively compensate the loss of honor, and how this notion was linked to health at several levels. The following chapter establishes the court's reliance on the expertise of medical professionals, which in turn increased medical professional's prestige. It then shows how Flemish governments integrated notions of labor and communal well-being into their perception of the body, using the knowledge produced medical professionals in court to manage the city's life forces and promote what they defined as the common good. The final chapter demonstrates that Flemish municipal government partook in biopolitical negotiations, seeking to control, police and monopolize the city's medical market, and by doing so, were led to rethink political power distribution in their cities.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història - Política
- Notes
- Dir.: S. Ferente, G. Geltner i C. V. Veeda.
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/23ce13bc-9253-4847-b ...
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