Food And Health In Early Modern Europe

Author : David Gentilcore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Food consumption
ISBN : 147421956X

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"Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works. The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to the relationship between food, health and medicine for history students and scholars alike."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : David Gentilcore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472528421

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Food and Health in Early Modern Europe by David Gentilcore Pdf

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works. The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to the relationship between food, health and medicine for history students and scholars alike.

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : IND:30000085862369

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Food in Early Modern Europe by Ken Albala Pdf

This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages.

Author : Christopher Kissane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350008472

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Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe by Christopher Kissane Pdf

Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe. Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case studies in Castile, Zurich and Shetland to explore what food can reveal about the wider social and cultural history of early modern communities undergoing religious upheaval. Issues of identity, gender, cultural symbolism and community relations are analysed in a number of different contexts. The book also surveys the place of food in history and argues the need for historians not only to think more about food, but also with food in order to gain novel insights into historical issues. This is an important study for food historians and anyone seeking to understand the significant issues and events in early modern Europe from a fresh perspective.

Author : Piero Camporesi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509539550

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Bread of Dreams by Piero Camporesi Pdf

Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies. Camporesi develops the startling claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to children and infants, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday imaginative life of peasants, beggars and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams. Bread of Dreams is a rich and engaging book which provides a fresh insight into the everyday life and attitudes of people in pre-industrial Europe. Camporesi's vision is breathtaking and his work will be much discussed among social and cultural historians. This edition includes a Preface by Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

Author : Sandra Cavallo,Tessa Storey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526113504

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Conserving health in early modern culture by Sandra Cavallo,Tessa Storey Pdf

Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six ‘Non-Naturals’: the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the ‘passions of the soul’. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds. The following two chapters are available open access on a CC-BY-NC-ND license here: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=633180 3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England - Leah Astbury 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England - Hannah Newton

Author : Frederick W Gibbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317079323

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Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Frederick W Gibbs Pdf

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to light premodern physicians' debates about the potential existence, nature, and properties of a category of substance theoretically harmful to the human body in even the smallest amount. Focusing on the category of poison (venenum) rather than on specific drugs reframes and remixes the standard histories of toxicology, pharmacology, and etiology, as well as shows how these aspects of medicine (although not yet formalized as independent disciplines) interacted with and shaped one another. Physicians argued, for instance, about what properties might distinguish poison from other substances, how poison injured the human body, the nature of poisonous bodies, and the role of poison in spreading, and to some extent defining, disease. The way physicians debated these questions shows that poison was far from an obvious and uncontested category of substance, and their effort to understand it sheds new light on the relationship between natural philosophy and medicine in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Author : Timothy J. Tomasik,Juliann M. Vitullo
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000116144548

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At the Table by Timothy J. Tomasik,Juliann M. Vitullo Pdf

This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought.

Author : Elaine Leong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226583662

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge by Elaine Leong Pdf

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.

Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521425926

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe by Mary Lindemann Pdf

A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

Author : Jodi Campbell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290815

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At the First Table by Jodi Campbell Pdf

"At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance and maintenance of social identity"--

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031067

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Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

Thoroughly updated best-selling textbook with new learning features. This acclaimed textbook has unmatched breadth of coverage and a global perspective.

Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995383

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A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age by Beat Kümin Pdf

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general population, elite tastes shifted from Renaissance opulence toward the greater simplicity and elegance of dining à la française. At the same time, growing spatial mobility and urbanization boosted the demand for professional cooking and commercial catering. An unprecedented wealth of artistic, literary and medical discourses on food and drink allows fascinating insights into contemporary responses to these transformations. A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Author : Simon Ditchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1152243965

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Material Cultures of Food in Early Modern Europe by Simon Ditchfield Pdf

Author : Timothy J. Tomasik,Juliann M. Vitullo
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCSC:32106018791787

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At the Table by Timothy J. Tomasik,Juliann M. Vitullo Pdf

This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought.