Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy

Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.

About the author

Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).

Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

Summary

Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.

Additional text

Cavallo and Storey's important book ought to be obligatory reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine in early modern Italy. It will also generously reward other readers seeking to benefit from its bounty of illuminating insights pertaining to art history, gender studies, and social history.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Cavallo, Sandra (Professor of Early Modern History Cavallo, Sandra Storey Cavallo, Cavallo Sandra, Tessa Storey, Storey Tessa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199678136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967813-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of Medicine, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599