Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Food Culture, Food History before 1900
Número de páginas: 260 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 21-02-2022
EAN: 9789463728034
ISBN: 978-94-6372-803-4
Precio (sin IVA): 156,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 162,71 €
Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, this book reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises of the sixteenth century and prescriptive literature, a wide range of literary works contributed to a revolution in eating and taste. In the process long held visions of food and eating, as related to social order and hierarchy, medicine, sexuality and gender, religion and morality, pleasure and the senses, were questioned, tested and overturned, and eating and its pleasures would never be the same.