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

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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 reco...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vaughan, Theresa A., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Premodern health, disease and disability.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Food habits > Europe > History > To 1500.
Women > Health and hygiene > Europe > History.
Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women as healers, women as food producers
  • Medieval theories of nutrition and health
  • The special problem of nutrition and women's health
  • Theoretical medicine vs. Practical medicine
  • The Trotula and the works of Hildegard of Bingen
  • The legacy of the Trotula
  • Women's diets and standards of beauty
  • Religious conflict and religious accommodation
  • Evolving advice for women's health through diet.

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