Women, food, and diet in the middle ages : balancing the humours / Theresa A. Vaughan.

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ISBN
9781003709787 (electronic bk.)
1003709788 (electronic bk.)
9781040790113 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040790119 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040777121 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040777120 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781041190844
9789462989382
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Premodern health, disease, and disability
Genel Not
First published in 2020 by Amsterdam University Press Ltd.
İçindekiler Notu
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Women as Healers, Women as Food Producers, 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health, 3. The Special Problems of Nutrition and Women's Health, 4. Medicine vs. Practical Medicine, 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen, 6. The Legacy of the Trotula, 7. Women's Diets and Standards of Beauty, 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation, 9. Evolving Advice for Women's Health Through Diet, Bibliography, Index
Özet, vb.
What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially women of the lower social classes, typically overlooked in the written record. This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
Konu
Women __ Health and hygiene __ Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Medicine, Medieval.
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