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Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy

Allen J. Grieco Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

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English
Harvard University Press
04 February 2020
The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cultural conventions. Food goes beyond issues relating to biological needs and nutrition or production and commerce; it also reveals social and cultural criteria that determine what dishes are prepared on what occasions, and it unveils the politics of the table via the rituals associated with different meals. This book approaches the history of food in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy through an interdisciplinary prism of sources ranging from correspondence, literature (both high and low), and medical and dietary treatises to cosmographic theory and iconographic evidence. Using a variety of analytical methods and theoretical approaches, it moves food studies firmly into the arena of Late Medieval and Renaissance history, providing an essential key to deciphering the material and metaphorical complexity of this period in European, and especially Italian, history.

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Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   34
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   540g
ISBN:   9780674244085
ISBN 10:   0674244087
Series:   Villa I Tatti Series
Pages:   328
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Allen J. Grieco is Senior Research Associate Emeritus at the Villa I Tatti. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber is Director of Studies (Retired) and Associated Member at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Reviews for Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy

Grieco's book, much awaited, maintains his promise of being a milestone in food history, regardless of the time period it covers...A deep inquiry into the mutual relationships between moral and political economies, as well as of knowledge production, and dissemination. For materially and visually-minded historians of science and knowledge this book is a treasure of suggestions, both about the systems of classifications of nature and about the daily life of people elaborating and disseminating knowledge about the edible side of the natural world. -- Paolo Savoia * Nuncius * A comprehensive and insightful contribution on the subject of food culture in the Renaissance. -- Marco Malvestio * Renaissance and Reformation *


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