Food and Health in Early Modern Europe

David Gentilcore

ISBN 10: 1472534972 / ISBN 13: 9781472534972

Published by Bloomsbury Academic Nov 2015, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Nov 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472534972
• ISBN 13: 9781472534972
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 157H x 15D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 418 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Gentilcore is Professor of Modern History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He is the author of Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).