TY - JOUR

T1 - Waste management and attitudes towards cleanliness in medieval central Europe

AU - Havlíček, Filip

AU - Pokorná, Adéla

AU - Zálešák, Jakub

PY - 2018/2/6

Y1 - 2018/2/6

N2 - 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. Keywords: Middle Ages, waste, waste management, recycling, environment, hygiene, cleanliness, ashes, clothes laundering

AB - 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. Keywords: Middle Ages, waste, waste management, recycling, environment, hygiene, cleanliness, ashes, clothes laundering

KW - Ashes

KW - Cleanliness

KW - Clothes laundering

KW - Environment

KW - Hygiene

KW - Middle Ages

KW - Recycling

KW - Waste

KW - Waste management

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048060465&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1515/jlecol-2017-0005

DO - 10.1515/jlecol-2017-0005

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85048060465

VL - 10.2017

SP - 266

EP - 287

JO - Journal of landscape ecology

JF - Journal of landscape ecology

SN - 1803-2427

IS - 3

ER -