Hosts / Producers / Editors: Hannah Feodorov, Nicholas van Oosterom Guest: Dr. Janna CoomansTechnical Assistance: Hans SchuurmanLanguage: EnglishArtwork: Hannah Feodorov, Nicholas van OosteromBad neighbours and weird stenches are universal, but what about jingling pigs? In this episode of Murmuring Medievalists, hosts Hannah Feodorov and Nicholas van Oosterom take a look at neighbourly disputes and public sanitation in late medieval Dutch and Belgian cities with Dr. Janna Coomans. How did communities form in the late medieval Low Countries? What made a good neighbour, and a bad one? What other nuisances could disrupt local harmony? And how was cleanliness, sanitation and peace managed in towns such as Ghent and Utrecht? Drawing from medieval court record books for stories on bad behaviour and disruptive actions, all these questions and more are answered in this episode, the third of three in this new podcast on topics of Medieval History at Utrecht University.If you are interested in learning more about communities in late medieval Dutch and Belgian cities, or Dr. Janna Coomans’ work, a bibliography and a link to Dr. Coomans’ university page are attached below.Bibliography:Professor Profile and Works:Coomans, Janna. Last accessed: 2nd March 2023. https://www.uu.nl/staff/JCoomansSecondary Sources:Coomans, Janna. Community, urban health and environment in the late medieval Low Countries. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.Coomans, Janna. ‘Making Good and Breaking Bad: Materiality and Community in Netherlandish Cities, 1380-1520’. The English Historical Review. Vol. 137 (587) (2022): 1053-1081.Coomans, Janna. ‘The King of Dirt: Public Health and Sanitation in Late Medieval Ghent.’ Urban History. Vol. 46 (2019): 82-105.Haemers, Jelle, and Ryckbosch, Wouter. ‘A Targeted Public: Public Services in Fifteenth-Century Ghent and Bruges.’ Urban History. Vol. 37 (2) (2010): 203-225.