{"product_id":"cleaning-up-renaissance-italy-environmental-ideals-and-urban-practice-in-genoa-and-venice-hardcover","title":"Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane L. Stevens Crawshaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, bridges, and waterways of these significant, sensuous cities to reveal the ambitious schemes undertaken to promote the cleanliness and health of their communities. Along the way, we encounter a broad and fascinating cross-section of Renaissance society -- from courtesans to street food sellers and architects to canal diggers -- and, using new archival sources, uncover both the ideals and lived experiences of health and environmental management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the Renaissance, vital connections were believed to exist between people's natures and those of the places they inhabited. Problems in urban or environmental bodies could have social and moral, as well as physical, effects. Street cleaning or the dredging of canals, therefore, were often justified in societal and religious, as well as natural, terms. These associations shaped government measures to regulate everyday life in ports, alongside communal responses to natural disasters. They informed the management of the environment, including waste disposal, flood defences, dredging, and land reclamation, and endowed such activity with both physical and symbolic purpose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not simply a story of elite, official initiatives. Members of communities used public health structures to resolve the challenges of urban life -- social and physical. Occupational groups such as fishermen acted as environmental experts through the organisation of their guilds and provided reports on specific projects and proposals to government magistracies. Finally, the governments of both ports operated important systems of petitions and privileges, which encouraged innovation and the development of new technology by citizens and foreigners to address the central, environmental challenges of the day. Renaissance public health, then, emerges as a collaborate enterprise, as well as a site of tension within cosmopolitan neighbourhoods, and its study unveils more about forms of governance and community in this period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn illuminating and original account of social policies, urban design, and environmental management between 1400 and 1600, \u003cem\u003eCleaning Up Renaissance Italy\u003c\/em\u003e provides a new, multi-disciplinary history of Renaissance Italy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane L. Stevens Crawshaw, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in Early Modern European History, Oxford Brookes University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane L. Stevens Crawshaw\u003c\/strong\u003e is a social and cultural historian of health and the environment in Renaissance Italy. She is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. Between 2012 and 2017, she held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, called 'Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: environment, space, and society'. Before arriving at Oxford Brookes, she taught at the University of St Andrews and held a post-doctoral research fellowship with the Society for Renaissance Studies (the Rubinstein Fellowship). She received her PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge (Downing College) and her MA (hons) in History from the University of Edinburgh.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.8 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45775382708421,"sku":"9780198867432","price":162.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/bU62SmaVH29780198867432.webp?v=1770534406","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/cleaning-up-renaissance-italy-environmental-ideals-and-urban-practice-in-genoa-and-venice-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}