Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 /

Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gentilcore, David.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Health promotion -- Europe. Nutrition -- Europe. Food supply -- Europe. Food consumption -- Europe. Health Promotion -- history. Food consumption. Food supply. Health promotion. Nutrition. Europe. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755171

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ISBN:	9781474219563 147421956X 9781472533197 1472533194 9781472528421 1472528425 9781472528896 9781472534972
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015).
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version:Original

Table of 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.