ISBN:
9789048552023
,
9048552028
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource 262 p)
Series Statement:
Food Culture, Food History Before 1900
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Giannetti, Laura Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy
DDC:
394.120945
Keywords:
Food habits History
;
Food History
;
HISTORY / Europe / Italy
;
Food
;
Food habits
;
History
;
Italy
Abstract:
Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Acknowledgements --Introduction --1. Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning --2. Sixteenth-Century Food Wars --3. Attending Poetic Banquets --4. Femininity and Food Culture in Renaissance Italy --Index
Abstract:
As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse. Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, 'Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy' reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises of the sixteenth century and prescriptive literature, a wide range of literary works contributed to a revolution in eating and taste. In the process long held visions of food and eating, as related to social order and hierarchy, medicine, sexuality and gender, religion and morality, pleasure and the senses, were questioned, tested and overturned, and eating and its pleasures would never be the same
Note:
Includes index
