Cavallo / Unknown / Storey Conserving health in early modern culture

Bodies and environments in Italy and England
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1349-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Cavallo, Sandra

Storey, Tessa

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society – Sandra Cavallo
Part I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature
1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared – Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey
Part II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body
2 ‘What to expect when you’re always expecting’: frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy – Caroline Castiglione
3 ‘Ordering the infant’: caring for newborns in early modern England – Leah Astbury (available open access)
4 ‘She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England – Hannah Newton (available open access)
Part 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
Part 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 – Tessa Storey
Part 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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cavallo Sandra:
Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of LondonStorey Tessa:
Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of LondonSandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London

Tessa Storey is Honorary Research Associate in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London