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Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours book cover

1st Edition

Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages Balancing the Humours

By Theresa Vaughan Copyright 2020
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Women as Healers, Women as Food Producers, 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health, 3. The Special Problems of Nutrition and Women's Health, 4. Medicine vs. Practical Medicine, 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen, 6. The Legacy of the Trotula, 7. Women's Diets and Standards of Beauty, 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation, 9. Evolving Advice for Women's Health Through Diet, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Theresa A. Vaughan is Professor of Humanities in the department of Humanities and Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Liberal Arts, and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She obtained her Ph.D. in Folklore with a double minor in Anthropology from Indiana University. Her work focuses on women’s folklore, foodways, and the Middle Ages. She is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife with Liz Locke and Pauline Greenhill, and serves on the editorial boards of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture and Journal of Folklore Research.

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