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Bread of dreams : food and fantasy in early modern Europe Piero Camporesi ; translated by David Gentilcore
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camporesi, Piero.
- Standardized Title:
- Pane selvaggio. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Europe--History.
- Poor.
- Malnutrition--Europe--History.
- Malnutrition.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Contents:
- The 'disease of wretchedness'
- Elusive bread
- Sacred and profane cannibalism
- 'They set out into the world of the vagabond'
- 'They rotted in their own dung'
- The world turned upside down
- 'Famine of living' and 'times of suspicion'
- Night-time
- Ritual battles and popular frenzies
- Medicinia pauperum
- 'Tightness of purse'
- Collective vertigo
- Hyperbolic dreams
- Artificial paradises
- Poppyseed bread
- The 'fickle and verminuous colony'
- Putrid worms and vile snails
- A city of mummies
- The triumph of poverty.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Il pane selvaggio.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0226092577
- 9780226092577
- OCLC:
- 19128831
- Online:
- Publisher description
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