Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages : : Balancing the Humours / / Theresa Vaughan.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Women as Healers, Women as Food Producers
- 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health
- 3. The Special Problem of Nutrition and Women’s Health
- 4. Theoretical Medicine vs. Practical Medicine
- 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen
- 6. The Legacy of the Trotula
- 7. Women’s Diets and Standards of Beauty
- 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation
- 9. Evolving Advice for Women’s Health Through Diet
- Bibliography
- Index