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Conserving health in early modern culture : bodies and environments in Italy and England
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Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving heal...
Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.
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- Creator
- edited by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017
- ©2017
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- xvi, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781526113474, 1526113503, 1526113473, 9781526113498, 152611349X, 9781526113504
- OCLC
- ocn992562004, ocn974862759
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-318) and index.
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I A comparative perspective on preventive literature -- 1. Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared / Tessa Storey -- pt. II The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body -- 2. `What to expect when you're always expecting': frequent childbirth and female health in early modem Italy / Caroline Castiglione -- 3. `Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England / Leah Astbury -- 4. `She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England / Hannah Newton -- pt. III Airs and places -- 5. Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano / Maria Conforti -- 6. The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population / Maria Pia Donato -- pt. IV Spiritual health and bodily health -- 7. Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households / Sasha Handley -- 8. English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies / pt. V Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health -- 9. Chasing `good air' and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome / Frances Gage -- 10. Hot-drinking practices in the late Renaissance Italian household: a case study around an enigmatic pouring vessel / Marta Ajmar
Subjects
- Public health -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
- Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
- Italy -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
- Health Behavior.
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- Healthy Lifestyle.
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- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
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- Italy.
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- England.
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