Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

by PieroCamporesi (Author)

Synopsis

� A brilliant and highly original attempt to reconstruct the imaginative world of ordinary people - peasants, beggars, the poor - in early modern Europe. � Camporesi shows that some food, like bread had intoxicating qualities, so that people were literally drugged by the food they ate.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 218
Edition: 1
Publisher: Polity
Published: 27 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0745618367
ISBN 13: 9780745618364