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

by PROF. Theresa Vaughan

What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462989389
• ISBN13: 9789462989382
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"