Healthy living in late Renaissance Italy / Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavallo, Sandra.

Contributor:

Storey, Tessa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Italy--History--16th century.

Public health.

Medicine, Preventive--Italy--History--16th century.

Medicine, Preventive.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors explore 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 - they demonstrate that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being developed in 16th-century Italian cities.

Contents:

Cover; Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A STATIC BODY OF KNOWLEDGE?; A NEW CULTURE OF PREVENTION?; 1: Print and a Culture of Prevention; A FLOURISHING BOOK CULTURE; DOCTORS AND PRINTED VERNACULAR REGIMENS; REGIMENS' PHYSICAL AND FORMAL FEATURES; THE READERS; THE DISSEMINATION OF PREVENTIVE ADVICE: BOOKS FOR THE HOME; INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASPIRING GENTLEMAN; CONCLUSION; 2: Practices of Healthy Living: The Sources

THE SPADA-VERALLI FAMILY: FROM RURAL LORDS, BANDITS, AND TAX FARMERS TO LEARNED GENTLEMENLETTERS; THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF HEALTH; VISUAL SOURCES; CONCLUSION; 3: Worrying About the Air; THE MEDICAL ADVICE; THE SOURCES OF NEW IDEAS ABOUT AIR; WHERE TO BUILD A HEALTHY HOME; INSIDE THE HEALTHY HOME; HEATING AND 'RECTIFYING' THE AMBIENT AIR; FROM PERFUMES TO CLOTHING; 'AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, BECAUSE THE WEATHER IS EXTREMELY CHANGEABLE, FIRST COOL AND THEN HOT'; CONCLUSION; 4: A Good Night's Sleep; SLEEP AND DIGESTION; SLEEPING DURING THE DAY: OLD AND NEW VIEWS; THE CULTURE OF DAYTIME REST

NIGHT SLEEP: A NEW ROLE FOR THE BEDA HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR SLEEP; HEALTHY SLEEP, GENDER, AND PRIVACY; CONCLUSION; 5: Gentle Exercise and Genteel Living; 'WE MUST AVOID ANYTHING WHICH TIRES US EXCESSIVELY'; 'THERE CANNOT BE JUST ONE KIND OF EXERCISE FOR ALL NATURES, TIMES, AGES, AND PLACES'; EXERCISE FOR THE ELITES; THE BODY OF THE GENTLEMAN, THE BODY OF THE DEVOUT CHRISTIAN; GAMES, OLD AND NEW; WALKING AS EXERCISE: THE LAY NARRATIVE; CONCLUSION; 6: The Well-Tempered Man; LINKING 'ACCIDENTS OF THE SOUL' TO ILLNESS; MELANCHOLY; ILLNESS AND THE PASSIONS IN DAILY LIFE

GOVERNING THE PASSIONS: MANAGINGBODY AND SOULDELIGHTING AND COMFORTING THE SPIRITS; ALLEGRIA AT THE VILLA; CONCLUSION; 7: 'Salute!' (Cheers!) Drinking to Your Health; HEEDING THE PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE?; VEGE TABLES, LENT, AND HEALTH; COLD DRINKING; NEW DRINKS; THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF DRINKING; CONCLUSIONS; 8: Excretions as Excrements: The Hygiene of the Body; THE HYGIENE OF THE HEAD; THE HYGIENE OF THE PORES; PULITEZZA : CLEANLINESS, APPEARANCE, DECORUM; CONCLUSION; Conclusions; THE MEDICALIZATION OF THE HOME; A DYNAMIC CULTURE OF PREVENTION; SOCIETY CHANGE AND IDEAS OF HEALTHY LIVING

EMPOWERING PATIENTS OR EMPOWERING DOCTORS?Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; PRINTED SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Picture Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191666841

019166684X

9781306300339

1306300339

OCLC:

868581079