Eating Right in the Renaissance

"Albala 's engaging tour through the host of Renaissance dietary theories reminds us that our preoccupations with food and susceptibility to cranky advice about nutrition are nothing new. This is superior scholarship delivered with a light touch."—Rachel Laudan, author of The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage

"This stimulating work is an important contribution to social and especially medical-dietetic history. Albala is the first to explore in detail the role of dietetic literature in the development of the European nation state. His book is a pleasure to read."—Melitta Weiss Adamson, editor of Food in the Middle Ages

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling
Introduction
1. Overview of the Genre
2. The Human Body: Humors, Digestion, and the Physiology of Nutrition
3. Food: Quality, 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

Info autore

Ken Albala is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of the Pacific.

Riassunto

Providing an account of the differences between the nutritional logic of the past and our own time, this book examines the range of dietary literature of the Renaissance. Ken Albala reveals the working of the Renaissance mind through the exploration of Renaissance ideas on food.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ken Albala, Albala Ken
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780520229471
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22947-1
• Pagine: 324
• Serie: California Studies in Food & Culture; California Series in Food and; California Studies in Food and Culture
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute > Bellezza / cosmesi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; History of Ideas, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / Nutrition, Dietetics & nutrition, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Dietetics and nutrition, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval