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Women, food, and diet in the Middle Ages : balancing the humours / Theresa A. Vaughan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughan, Theresa A., 1966- author.
- Series:
- Premodern health, disease and disability.
- Premodern health, disease and disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Women--Health and hygiene--Europe--History.
- Food habits--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Food habits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Summary:
- 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 when considering the lower social classes which are typically overlooked in the written record. What can we know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages and how does the written medical tradition interact with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
- Contents:
- Women as healers, women as food producers
- Medieval theories of nutrition and health
- The special problem of nutrition and women's health
- Theoretical medicine vs. Practical medicine
- The Trotula and the works of Hildegard of Bingen
- The legacy of the Trotula
- Women's diets and standards of beauty
- Religious conflict and religious accommodation
- Evolving advice for women's health through diet.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on 8th May, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9781040777121
- 1-003-70978-8
- 90-485-5652-X
- 9781003709787
- OCLC:
- 1201377320
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