... the topography, climate, food resources, markets, and roadways of Mughal India to better understand local abundance, needs, and wants. Travel through food insecure regions in India, interaction with local inhabitants, and encounters with famine created hybrid chorographic modes: forms of writing about travel...

... considerable time in the Spanish New World before returning to England, where his account of travels in Spanish America helped ease his repatriation and religious reintegration. Gage's attention to New World food, especially the confection and consumption of the Indian drink chocolate, provided English readers...

..., and the physical and mental constitutional nature of people and nations up to the early twentieth century. Central to this conception of the body and its environment is the perception of causal connections between a place, including its climate, season, water, and food, and the people born into it. This essay...

..., until you pause to scrutinize it, and observe that although most of the food still remains — the diner has consumed just a slice or two of bread, and per- haps a bite of meat — his knife and fork lie idle on the table, as if the meal were already over. Is he about to retrieve the utensils...

... of Christ under any species. This is a striking exclusion. . . . In Julian’s visions and meditations, Christ’s body is legible space rather than food.13 My reading of the fair purse passage, however, argues that it constitutes a significant counter-­example: a reference to ingestion...

..., is the digestion of food, and the blowing out in wind of digested food. For as the belch breaks from the stomach according to the quality of the food, which is indicated by the good or foul smell of the wind, so the cogitations of the inner man...

... Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to The “Divine Comedy.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x, 371 pp.; 4 illus. $70.00, paper $25.00. 3. Cultures of cooking and clothing Baker, Sera, et al., eds. Food and Drink in Archaeology I: University of Not- tingham Postgraduate Conference 2007...

... uses motifs of food, eating, and cannibalism to represent the Spanish imperialist project, and I will say more about this below. More to the point here, with the antagonistic relationship between the Spanish and the natives, Ralegh’s ability to convert the natives to the cult of Elizabeth has...

.... As with clothing, food, or music and assorted other arts, so with scholarship. Imitation feeds satiety, burnout, and yearning for a titillating next thing. But microhistory, because marginal, institution-­poor, and weakly sociable, is by and large canon-­free, mostly practice-­driven, and often gaily...

... of Doomsday, Wastoure leaves the reader with the equally inescapable fate of class antagonism, where plenty depends on poverty, and winning immediately becomes waste. This delicate social symmetry, crafted into a list of foods that suggests more discipline than decadence, depends, however, upon...

.... 416 pp., 50 figs., 9 tables, 2 maps. Hardcover, ebook. Giannetti, Laura. Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy: The Renaissance of Taste . Food Culture, Food History before 1900. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 260 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Licence, Amy. Living...

... proprietatibus rerum, Bartholomaeus Anglicus offered several possi- bilities ranging from the bite of a venomous worm to spicy meats to corrupt air, food, or wine.18 But the most common and elaborate theory of causa- tion — also cited by Bartholomaeus — focused on the excesses of the female reproductive...

... / 47.2 / 2017 Stanivukovic, Goran. Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565 – 1655. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. xx, 265 pp.; 4 illus. $65.00. 7. The everyday Bach, Volker. The Kitchen, Food, and Cooking...

... dynamics from a wide angle, or on demographic features such as nuptiality, family structure, sexual roles, and reproduction; plague and mortality; migration, mobility, and colonization; urbanization; diet, hunger, and the food supply; childhood and aging; or on the intersection of demography...

..., or on demographic features such as nuptiality, family structure, sexual roles, and reproduction; plague and mortality; migration, mobility, and colonization; urbanization; diet, hunger, and the food supply; childhood and aging; or on the intersection of demography with institutions including, for example, religion...

.... Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. x, 193 pp., 14 color plates. $65.00. Grieco, Allen J. Food, Social Politics, and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy . Villa I Tatti Series, vol. 34. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press...

.... Guide to Imagery. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 381 pp.; color illus. throughout. Paper $24.95. Varriano, John. Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy. California Studies in Food and Culture, vol. 27. An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Imprint. Berkeley: University...

... to the viewer, a woman with long blond hair, represented twice, prepares food outside and inside an orderly kitchen. Further back in space, at the bottom right, we can identify figures seated at a table, perhaps for a meal. Upon closer examination, however, the illusion of domestic calm and normalcy...

... Landing somewhere between drugs and food on the list of ingestible sub- stances, caffeinated beverages made from natural products imported from around the world occupied a class of their own and inspired their own tex- tual tradition in Europe. That tradition has its roots in the experience...