Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800

by David Gentilcore

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472534972
• ISBN13: 9781472534972
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"