Conserving health in early modern culture
Bodies and environments in Italy and England
Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prev…
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Weitere Autoren: Storey, Tessa (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1350-4
- EAN: 9781526113504
- Produktnummer: 32341482
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'165 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 colour illustrations, 12 black & white illustrations
Über den Autor
Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London Tessa Storey is Honorary Research Associate in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London
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