Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London Klappentext Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries. Zusammenfassung Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy! its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society - Sandra Cavallo Part I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature 1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared - Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey Part II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body 2 'What to expect when you're always expecting': frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy - Caroline Castiglione3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England - Leah Astbury (available open access) 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England - Hannah Newton (available open access) Part III: Airs and places 5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano - Maria Conforti6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population - Maria Pia Donato Part IV: Spiritual health and bodily health 7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households - Sasha Handley8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies - Tessa Storey Part V: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health 9 Chasing 'good air' and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome - Frances Gage10 Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel - Marta AjmarIndex...
