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Sandra Cavallo

Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy

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Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources - ranging from cheap healthy living guides in the vernacular to personal letters, conduct literature, household inventories, and surviving images and objects - this volume demonstrates that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being developed insixteenth-century Italian cities. This culture sought to regulate the factors thought to influence health, and centred particularly on the home and domestic routines such as sleep patterns, food and dri… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Storey, Tessa
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-166684-1
  • EAN: 9780191666841
  • Produktnummer: 16939083
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 420'327 KB
  • Abbildungen: numerous black & white and colour images

Über den Autor


Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early ModernEurope (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

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