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

"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 sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gentilcore, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.