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Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy (2020)

Grieco, Allen J. (Author)

Villa I Tatti

ISBN: 9780674244085

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 328
Language: English

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Gastronomy Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships Nutrition; dietetics Science and politics Food and foods Medieval Renaissance Italy

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cultural conventions. Food goes beyond issues relating to biological needs and nutrition or production and commerce; it also reveals social and cultural criteria that determine what dishes are prepared on what occasions, and it unveils the politics of the table via the rituals associated with different meals. This book approaches the history of food in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy through an interdisciplinary prism of sources ranging from correspondence, literature (both high and low), and medical and dietary treatises to cosmographic theory and iconographic evidence. Using a variety of analytical methods and theoretical approaches, it moves food studies firmly into the arena of Late Medieval and Renaissance history, providing an essential key to deciphering the material and metaphorical complexity of this period in European, and especially Italian, history.

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Review Paolo Savoia (2020) Review of "Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 451-454). unapi

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