O surgimento das cidades na baixa Idade Média ocidental: origens, organização e higiene

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.9962416013

• Palavras-chave: Baixa Idade Média; Cidades; Historiografia; Higiene.

• Keywords: Early Middle Ages; Cities; Historiography; Hygiene.

• Abstract: In the tangent between the North American, French, British and Dutch conceptions, regarding urban history as a historical object, this article sought to present the understanding of different theorists about the emergence of cities during the Lower Middle Ages, as well as the most common historiographical classifications and categories to talk about the city object. As for the methodology, a qualitative bibliographic research was developed and a subsequent content analysis. The article concluded that, taking into account the statements of Paul Hohenberg, many of the answers about the birth of contemporary European cities are in the medieval period, not in the modern industrial period and the documents that can offer information about cities in Southern and Eastern Europe are the first maps, drawings and archaeological records that allow the detailed reconstruction of urban spaces, where according to Florent Garnier, the concept of city is like something that founds its own individuality. In addition, it was understood that health and hygiene practices were being compiled in the midst of Health Regimes that served as guides for physicists and doctors.