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The Land of Hunger

By: Piero Camporesi

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In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe. Camporesi brings together a mosaic of images from Italian folklore:phantasmagoric processions of giants, pigs, vagabonds, down-trodden rogues, charlatans and beggars in rags. He reconstructs a world inhabited by the strange forces of peasant culture, and describes the various rituals - carnivals, festivities, competitions and funerals - in which food played a central role. Camporesi's description alternates between the lives of the "haves" and the "have-nots". He moves from the starving underworld of "criminalized poverty", where people were forced to develop the art of living at the expense of others simply in order to survive, to the gastronomic culture of the well-fed, with their excessive eating habits, oily foods and colourful table manners. "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 historians of our time.

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0745608884

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The Anatomy of the Senses

Natural Symbols in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Anatomy of the Senses

Natural Symbols in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

By: Piero Camporesi

This book is a brilliant account of medieval and early modern attitudes to the cosmos in general and the human body in particular, written by one of the foremost historians of folklore and popular beliefs in Europe today.

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Polity

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0745605060

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9780745605067

Bread of Dreams

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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Bread of Dreams

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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 claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to children and infants, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday imaginative life of peasants, beggars and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams. Bread of Dreams is a rich and engaging book which provides a fresh insight into the everyday life and attitudes of people in pre-industrial Europe. Camporesi's vision is breathtaking and his work will be much discussed among social and cultural historians. This edition includes a Preface by Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509539557

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The Incorruptible Flesh

Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Incorruptible Flesh

Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

By: Piero Camporesi

Professor Camporesi examines what significance the body had for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? In this extraordinary and often astounding book, Professor Camporesi traces these ideas back to various documents across the centuries and explores the juxtaposition of medicine and sorcery, cookery and surgery, pharmacy and alchemy.

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CUP Archive

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0521320038

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9780521320030

The Fear of Hell

Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Fear of Hell

Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity&—hell and the eucharist. Drawing upon the writings of Italian preachers and theologians of the Counter-Reformation, Piero Camporesi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Baroque imagination to conjure up punishments, tortures, and the rewards of sin. In the first part of the book, Camporesi argues that hell was a very real part of everyday life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Preachers portrayed hell in images typical of common experience, comparing it to a great city, a hospital, a prison, a natural disaster, a rioting mob, or a feuding family. The horror lay in the extremes to which these familiar images could be taken. The city of hell was not an ordinary city, but a filthy, stinking, and overcrowded place, an underworld &"sewer&" overflowing with the refuse of decaying flesh and excrement&—shocking but not beyond human imagination. What was most disturbing about this grotesque imagery was the realization by the people of the day that the punishment of afterlife was an extension of their daily experience in a fallen world. Thus, according to Camporesi, the fear of hell had many manifestations over the centuries, aided by such powerful promoters as Gregory the Great and Dante, but ironically it was during the Counter-Reformation that hell's tie with the physical world became irrevocable, making its secularization during the Enlightenment ultimately easier. The eucharist, or host, the subject of the second part of the book, represented corporeal salvation for early modern Christians and was therefore closely linked with the imagery of hell, the place of perpetual corporeal destruction. As the bread of life, the host possessed many miraculous powers of healing and sustenance, which made it precious to those in need. In fact, it was seen to be so precious to some that Camporesi suggests that there was a &"clandestine consumption of the sacred unleavened bread, a network of dealers and sellers&" and a &"market of consumers.&" But to those who ate the host unworthily was the prospect of swift retribution. One wicked priest continued to celebrate the mass despite his sin, and as a result, &"his tongue and half of his face became rotten, thus demonstrating, unwillingly, by the stench of his decaying face, how much the pestiferous smell of his contaminated heart was abominable to God.&" When received properly, however, the host was a source of health and life both in this world and in the world to come. Written with style and imagination, The Fear of Hell offers a vivid and scholarly examination of themes central to Christian culture, whose influence can still be found in our beliefs and customs today.

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Bread of Dreams

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

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Mountebanks and Medicasters

A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Piero Gambaccini

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Mountebanks and Medicasters

A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Piero Gambaccini

Italian medical charlatans, wandering quacks who traded in remedies, accompanied real medicine like a dark shadow during its slow progress. Over the centuries, these cunning individuals infuriated orthodox physicians with their ability to capture audiences in village squares. While licensed physicians imperiously ordered torrential enemas and pitiless bloodletting, charlatans sold cheap remedies accompanied by consoling promises. Not merely merchants committed to swindling the gullible, the charlatans often disguised a form of opposition to an arrogant new science. New and courageous ideas were hidden beneath their exaggerated posturing. This work recounts the history and adventures of ingenious Italian medical quacks who were sought after and imitated all over Europe. The research is culled from judicial proceedings, newspaper articles, Italian State Archives, and books and manuscripts from all over the world. Ostensibly an account of these characters covering five centuries, the book also examines the relationship between doctor and patient and the placebo effect. The final chapters explore the reasons for their success and the necessity for a re-evaluation of the relationship between doctor and patient today, a period in which the practice of medicine is often confined to laboratory examinations and brief, impersonal encounters.

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McFarland

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0786416068

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9780786416066

Muscle Injury in the Athlete

The Italian Consensus Conference Guidelines

By: Piero Volpi,Gian Nicola Bisciotti

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Muscle Injury in the Athlete

The Italian Consensus Conference Guidelines

By: Piero Volpi,Gian Nicola Bisciotti

This volume provides a cutting-edge analysis concerning the biology and aetiology, classification, clinical assessment and conservative treatment of lower limb muscle injuries in athletes. Muscle injuries are the most common trauma both in team and individual sports and are responsible for most of the time lost both in training and in competition: in professional football (soccer), they account for 30% and in track and field for 48% of all injuries recorded. Despite the considerable interest in this topic among clinicians and researchers, there is still no consensus regarding the etiopathogenesis, classification, clinical examination and treatment of muscle lesions. Based on the first Italian Consensus Conference on guidelines for the conservative treatment of lower limb muscle injuries in athletes, which was held in April 2017 at Humanitas Clinic Institute in Milan, Italy under the auspices of the Italian Society of Arthroscopy, this comprehensive book addresses the main issues concerning muscle injuries, from biology and pathobiology to clinical evaluation and different treatment option, including the most frequently used physio-kinesitherapy therapies. It also presents a consensus classification of muscle injuries closely linked to prognostic factors. Written by international experts with diverse medical backgrounds, this book offers comprehensive practical guidance for orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians, athletic trainers, physiotherapists, sports science students, and physiatrists.

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Springer

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3030161587

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English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

By: Piero Boitani

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English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

By: Piero Boitani

In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521311497

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The Fear of Hell

Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Fear of Hell

Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Magic Harvest

Food, Folkore and Society

By: Piero Camporesi

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The Magic Harvest

Food, Folkore and Society

By: Piero Camporesi

The Magic Harvest d is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food, written by one of Europe's most important and original historians of food and culture.

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0745621961

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Exotic Brew

The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Piero Camporesi

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Exotic Brew

The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Piero Camporesi

This is an account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the 18th century. The text examines the shift from a rich, heavy diet to a much lighter one which emphasised exotic foods like tea, coffee and chocolate.

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Blackwell Publishing

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074562197X

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The Incorruptible Flesh

Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

By: Piero Camporesi

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Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

By: Piero Camporesi

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300199465

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

Includes a biography of the Italian painter, compares his work with that of other artists of his time, discusses his mathematic and geometric theories, and provides a complete catalog of his work

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0300057032

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461 1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero's approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author's explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions many still influential today that resulted from Vasari's account, she reveals that even Piero's most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time.

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Reaktion Books

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0948462361

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9780948462368

Book's by Piero Camporesi

The Land of Hunger

The Land of Hunger

The Anatomy of the Senses

The Anatomy of the Senses

Bread of Dreams

Bread of Dreams

The Incorruptible Flesh

The Incorruptible Flesh

The Fear of Hell

The Fear of Hell

Bread of Dreams

Bread of Dreams

Mountebanks and Medicasters

Mountebanks and Medicasters

Muscle Injury in the Athlete

Muscle Injury in the Athlete

English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

The Fear of Hell

The Fear of Hell

The Magic Harvest

The Magic Harvest

Exotic Brew

Exotic Brew

The Incorruptible Flesh

The Incorruptible Flesh

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Piero Di Cosimo

Piero Di Cosimo

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