Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy

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ISBN 9780674244085

Publication Date: 02/04/2020

328 pages

6 x 8-1/4 inches

36 color illus., 5 illus.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword [Christiane Klapisch-Zuber]
Introduction
I. The Renaissance Table in Theory and Practice
- 1. Meals and Mealtimes in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- 2. From the Cookbook to the Table: The Mensa della Signoria and Italian Recipes of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
- 3. Conviviality in a Renaissance Court: The Ordini et Officij of the Court of Urbino
- 4. Food at the Ospedale degli Innocenti: Medical Theory and Social Groups in Mid‐Quattrocento Florence
II. Social Distinctions, Dietary Theory and Classificatory Systems
- 5. Food and Social Classes in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- 6. Medieval and Renaissance Wines: Taste, Dietary Theory and How to Choose the “Right” Wine (Fourteenth–Sixteenth centuries)
- 7. Fiordiano Malatesta da Rimini and the Ichthyological Treatises of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
- 8. Botanical Knowledge or Poetic Understanding? Fruit in Italian Quattrocento Poetry
- 9. The Social Order of Nature and the Natural Order of Society in Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth‐Century Italy
- 10. The Social Politics of Pre‐Linnean Botanical Classification
III. Food in Literary and Visual Discourse
- 11. What’s in a Detail: More Chickens in Renaissance Birth Scenes
- 12. Food and Good Manners in Florentine Last Suppers
- 13. The Eaten Heart: Social Order, Sexuality and the Wilderness
- 14. Vegetable Diets, Hermits and Melancholy in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Afterword
Plates
Bibliography
Index