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Rome, pollution, and propriety [electronic resource] : dirt, disease, and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity / edited by Mark Bradley with Kenneth Stow

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (xx, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bradley, Mark, 1977- and Stow, Kenneth R.
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Cover; Rome, Pollution and Propriety; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Note on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Approaches to pollution and propriety; Pollution in anthropology and sociology; Pollution in antiquity; Pollution beyond antiquity; Part I: Antiquity; 2 Pollution, religion and society in the Roman world; Birth and death; Sex; Blood; Cleansing the city; Conclusion; 3 Purification in ancient Rome; 4 Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome; 5 The `sacred sewer': tradition and religion in the Cloaca Maxima., From stream to sewer: the Cloaca Maxima in contextMaintaining and marking the Maxima; Sacred pollution; 6 Crime and punishment on the Capitoline Hill; The Tarpeian rock; The Carcer Tullianum; Decline and fall; Conclusion; 7 On the burial of unchaste Vestal Virgins; Part II: Modernity; 8 Fra Girolamo Savonarola and the aesthetics of pollution in fifteenth-century Rome; 9 Purging filth: plague and responses to it in Rome, 1656-7; Introduction: avoiding plague; `Of those people who because they live filthily put the public health at risk'; Charlatans and alchemical remedies., 10 Was the ghetto cleaner ...?11 Urban ablutions: cleansing Counter-Reformation Rome; 12 The clash of picturesque decay and modern cleanliness in late nineteenth-century Rome; Wondrous spectacles of decay; Visions of purity in streets and society; Conclusion; 13 Vile bodies: Victorian Protestants in the Roman catacombs; The Protestant rhetoric of pollution; Urban danger and disease; The defeat of the vile; 14 Delinquency and pederasty: 'deviant' youngsters in the suburbs of Fascist Rome; Definitions and perceptions., and The advent of Fascism: fighting against urbanism and promoting the uomo nuovo`Deviant' youth in Rome: the legal situation; The scientific gaze; Rome under Fascism; Conclusions; Envoi. Purity and danger: its life and afterlife; The system at war with itself; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe's oldest and most influential cities.
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ISBN
9781139528412 (electronic bk.)
1139528416 (electronic bk.)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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