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Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours - Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability Theresa Vaughan
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours - Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
Theresa Vaughan
This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
238 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 15, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9789462989382 |
| Publishers | Amsterdam University Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 240 × 163 × 21 mm · 506 g |