Waste Management and Attitudes Towards Cleanliness in Medieval Central Europe

Filip Havlíček; Adéla Pokorná; Jakub Zálešák

doi:10.1515/jlecol-2017-0005

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Waste Management and Attitudes Towards Cleanliness in Medieval Central Europe

Journal of Landscape Ecology

Volume 10 (2017): Issue 3 (December 2017)

By: Filip Havlíček, Adéla Pokorná and Jakub Zálešák

Open Access

|Feb 2018

Abstract

The paper deals with the relationships between people and waste in the Middle Ages, primarily in urban environments in Central Europe. At the center of interest are the attitudes of the inhabitants of medieval cities towards cleanliness and a description of different waste management practices. This paper also describes an experiment using ashes to launder clothing as one possible use of a particular waste material.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1805-4196 | Journal ISSN: 1803-2427

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Language: English

Page range: 266 - 287

Submitted on: Mar 10, 2017

Accepted on: Jun 9, 2017

Published on: Feb 6, 2018

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waste,

hygiene,

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