Eating right in the Renaissance /

Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of i.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Albala, Ken, 1964- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2002.
Серии:California studies in food and culture ; 2.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt7zw4kq
Оглавление:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Spelling
  • Introduction
  • 1. Overview of the Genre
  • 2. The Human Body: Humors, Digestion, and the Physiology of Nutrition
  • 3. Food: Qualities, Substance, and Virtues
  • 4. External Factors
  • 5. Food and the Individual
  • 6. Food and Class
  • 7. Food and Nation
  • 8. Medicine and Cuisine
  • Postscript: The End of a Genre and Its Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Illustrations.