Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2185443B

  Author(s)

  Kokoszko, Maciej

  City

  Lodz 

  Country

  Poland 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788323339014 

  Date of Publication

  2014 

  Publisher

  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  510 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Kokoszko, Maciej

  Publisher

  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego  

• Description

  The present book aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food. In order to achieve the goal, the authors have analysed select medical sources composed between the 2nd and the 7th centuries AD, i.e., treatises published from the moment of canonizing die- tetic doctrine by Galen up to the composition of the medical encyclopaedia compiled by Paul of Aegina and the publication of the anonymous work entitled De cibis. Within this timeframe, there appeared a number of works which, following the assumptions of the Hippocratic school, contain a cohesive discourse devoted to the role of food in maintaining and restoring human health, thus allowing us to trace the development of diets during the period in question.