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

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub., 2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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