ISBN: 9780199678136

Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety … Mehr…

Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources - ranging from cheap healthy living guides in the vernacular to personal letters, conductliterature, household inventories, and surviving images and objects - this volume demonstrates that a sophisticated culture of prevention was being developed in sixteenth-century Italian cities. This culture sought to regulate the factors thought to influence health, and centred particularly on thehome and domestic routines such as sleep patterns, food and drink consumption, forms of exercise, hygiene, control of emotions, and monitoring the air quality to which the body was exposed. Concerns about healthy living also had a substantial impact on the design of homes and the dissemination of a range of household objects. This study thus reveals the forgotten role of medical concerns in shaping everyday life and domestic material culture. However, medicine was not the sole factorresponsible for these changes. The surge of interest in preventive medicine received new impetus from the development of the print industry. Moreover, it was fuelled by classical notions of wellbeing, re-proposed by humanist culture and by the new interest in geography and climates. Broader socialand religious trends also played a key role; most significantly, the nexus between attention to one''s health and spiritual and moral worth promoted both by new ideas of what constituted nobility and by the Counter-Reformation. Six key areas were thought to influence the balance of ""humours"" within the body and Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy is organised into six main chapters which reflect these concerns: Air, Exercise, Sleep, Food and Drink, Managing the Emotions, and Bodily Hygiene. The volume is richlyillustrated, and offers an accessible but fascinating glimpse into both the domestic lives and health preoccupations of the early modern Italians. | Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy by Sandra Cavallo Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History P10103, Sandra Cavallo<

2014, ISBN: 9780199678136

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.Über den AutorTessa Storey is a Resea, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Hardcover, 448, [GW: 757g], Banküberweisung, PayPal<

2013, ISBN: 9780199678136

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2013

2013, ISBN: 9780199678136

Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press]