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The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World
presents a comprehensive overview of the sources, issues and
methodologies involved in the study of the Roman diet. The focus of
the book is on the Mediterranean heartland from the second century
BC to the third and fourth centuries AD. Life is impossible without
food, but what people eat is not determined by biology alone, and
this makes it a vital subject of social and historical study. The
Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach in which all kinds of
sources and disciplines are combined to study the diet and
nutrition of men, women and children in city and countryside in the
Roman world. The chapters in this book are structured in five
parts. Part I introduces the reader to the wide range of textual,
material and bioarchaeological evidence concerning food and
nutrition. Part II offers an overview of various kinds of food and
drink, including cereals, pulses, olive oil, meat and fish, and the
social setting of their consumption. Part III goes beyond the
perspective of the Roman adult male by concentrating on women and
children, on the cultures of Roman Egypt and Central Europe, as
well as the Jews in Palestine and the impact of Christianity. Part
IV provides a forum to three scholars to offer their thoughts on
what physical anthropology contributes to our understanding of
health, diet and (mal)nutrition. The final section puts food supply
and its failure in the context of community and empire.
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