Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours

By PROF. Theresa Vaughan

This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462989389
• ISBN13: 9789462989382
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"