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The Incorruptible Flesh
Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore
Inbunden, 2009
403 kr
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What significance did the body have for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? The human body was a constant prey to disease, plague, unhealthy living conditions, the evil effects of druggery and nutritional deficiency, yet the saints seemed …
Anatomy of the Senses
Natural Symbols in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Inbunden, 1994
854 kr
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Piero Camporesi is one of the foremost historians of folklore and popular beliefs in Europe today. This book is a brilliant account of medieval and early modern attitudes to the cosmos in general and the human body in particular. Drawing on a large body of literature, Camporesi builds up a …
Fear of Hell
Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2020
230 kr
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The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity—hell and the eucharist. Drawing on the writings of Italian preachers and theologians of the Counter-Reformation, Piero Camporesi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Baroque imagination to conjure up …
Bread of Dreams
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 1996
266 kr
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Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies.Camporesi develops the startling …
Magic Harvest
Food, Folkore and Society
Häftad, 1998
334 kr
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The Magic Harvest is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe. Focusing on Italy, Camporesi examines the social symbolism of food, and its associated rituals. He shows how the act of eating at weddings and seasonal feasts was seen as a metaphor for …
Bread of Dreams
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
E-bok, 2023
302 kr
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Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies. Camporesi develops the …
Land of Hunger
Inbunden, 1995
627 kr
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In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.The Land of Hunger is a graphic and engaging journey into the folk culture of early modern Europe. It will consolidate Camporesi’s reputation as one of the most original and imaginative …
Exotic Brew
The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 1998
211 kr
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This is a concise and elegant account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the eighteenth century.
