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From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The World of Taste in Early Modern Europe
Viktoria Von Hoffman
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Sensory History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 406.
Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrA (c)e to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and ... Read more
Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrA (c)e to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Sensory History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252082146
SKU
V9780252082146
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About Viktoria Von Hoffman
Viktoria von Hoffmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of LiAge.
Reviews for From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The World of Taste in Early Modern Europe
Von Hoffman writes with crossdisciplinary dexterity, fusing history, sociology, theology, philosophy, and economics in her scrupulously researched monograph.
Santa Fe New Mexican Von Hoffmann's study gives a comprehensive overview of writings on early modern taste from the standpoint of cuisine, medicine, religion, and philosophy. Rich and thoroughly researched.
Emma C. Spary, author of Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in ... Read more
Santa Fe New Mexican Von Hoffmann's study gives a comprehensive overview of writings on early modern taste from the standpoint of cuisine, medicine, religion, and philosophy. Rich and thoroughly researched.
Emma C. Spary, author of Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in ... Read more