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

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.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Villa I Tatti Series
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Allen J. Grieco
Foreword by:	Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Dimensions:	210 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-24408-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
LSN:	0-674-24408-7
Barcode:	9780674244085

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