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The heretic's feast : a history of vegetarianism Colin Spencer
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.822
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Colin, 1933-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vegetarianism--History.
- Vegetarianism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1995.
- Contents:
- In the beginning
- Pythagoras and his inheritance
- India
- Plato to Porphyry
- Early Christianity
- Gnostic sects and the Manicheans
- The Bogomils, the Cathars, and the Orthodox Church
- The Renaissance
- The clockwork universe
- The Rise of Humanism
- Docks and dandelions
- Sunlight and sandals
- Sentient or machine
- Afterword
- Appendixes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-389) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0874517087
- 9780874517088
- OCLC:
- 37820349
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