Bread of Dreams
Piero (University of Bologna) Camporesi
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1996
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A brilliant and highly original attempt to reconstruct the imaginative world of ordinary people - peasants, beggars, the poor - in early modern Europe. Camporesi shows that some food, like bread had intoxicating qualities, so that people were literally drugged by the food they ate.
- ISBN-13
- 9780745618364
- ISBN-10
- 0745618367
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Year
- 1996
- Publication date
- 1996-09-27
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 151x229x14
- Weight
- 326