Three sixteenth-century dietaries
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Three sixteenth-century dietaries
（The Revels plays companion library / E.A.J. Honigmann ... [et al.], general editors）
Manchester University Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- The castle of health / Thomas Elyot
- A compendious regiment, or, A dietary of health / Andrw Boorde
- The government of health / William Bullein
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's Government of Health, all popular and influential works that were typical of a genre advising the reader on how best to maintain physical and psychological health. They are here introduced, contextualized and edited for the first time in a modern spelling edition.
Introductory material explores the dietary genre, its relationship to humanism, humoral theory, and the wide range of authorities with which the dietary authors engaged. The volume includes an examination of the bibliographical and publication history of each work, comprehensive explanatory notes and appendices that provide prefaces to earlier editions, a glossary, and a list of authorities and works cited or alluded to in the dietaries. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction
History and contexts
The dietaries
Note on the editorial history of the dietaries
Textual issues
Finding aids (indexing)
The Dietaries
The Castle of Health, Thomas Elyot
A Compendious Regiment, or a Dietary of Health, Andrew Boorde
The Government of Health, William Bullein
Appendices
Works cited -- .
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