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Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800
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Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 / David Gentilcore.
ISBN
9781472528896
1472528891
9781472534972
1472534972
9781472533197
9781472528421
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
x, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Healthy food: Renaissance dietetics, c.1450 to c.1650
Healthy food: the fall and rise of dietetics, c. 1650 to c. 1800
Rich food, poor food: diet, physiology and social rank
Regional food: nature and nation in Europe
Holy food: spiritual and bodily health
Vegetable food: the vegetarian option
New World food: the Columbian exchange and its European impact
Liquid food: drinking for health.
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