The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650

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dc.contributor.authorShelton, Paul Hunteren
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:42:53Zen
dc.date.adate2009-08-18en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:42:53Zen
dc.date.issued1990en
dc.date.rdate2009-08-18en
dc.date.sdate2009-08-18en
dc.description.abstractThe use of herbs, spices, and other ingredients in the culinary recipes of late-medieval and Tudor England reflects the influence of ancient and medieval medical philosophy on the practices of the upper-class cook. Much of the literature treating the subject of diet in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England has concentrated upon the role that Church doctrine and seasonality played in determining food habits. Historians tend to ignore the very real influence that humoral doctrine and Galen’s theories of digestion had in determining what people ate. This work makes use of medical treatises, health manuals, culinary manuscripts, and printed cookbooks from the period to prove that cooks for the upper levels of English society were concerned about the effects that different foods had on health and that they prepared their meals with this information in mind.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentvii, 104 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08182009-040212en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040212/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44256en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1990.S545.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 22361387en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1990.S545en
dc.subject.lcshCooking, English -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshDiet -- England -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshMedicine, Medieval -- Englanden
dc.titleThe cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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