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David Gentilcore and Matthew Smith
No full textIf the 1980s may have been the high point of food additives—with Coca-Cola able to double the sales of ‘Tab’ in test markets by fortifying the fizzy diet drink with calcium —one of the more recent food trends has been not of additions but subtraction. We have all seen it on our supermarket shelves. A whole range of foods, from soy milk to sausages, are advertised as ‘additive-free’. This conveys a positive and healthy image to a public interested in health and wellbeing but anxious and suspicious about the nature of food additives. The expression has taken the place of abused terms like ‘natural’ or ‘all-natural’ on product packaging. It also makes it easier to rationalize the consumption of less healthy foods, which are at least perceived to be free from added artificial ingredients. Why not have another sausage; after all, it has ‘no synthetic preservatives’ and ‘no artificial flavours’? Additives we are understood not to like or approve of are thus removed (even whilst being simultaneously replaced with others)
Dietary change and epidemic disease: fame, fashion and expediency in the Italian pellagra disputes, 1852-1902
No full textThe case of the dietary deficiency disease known as pellagra provides an example of how dietary change, in this case the shift to mass maize cultivation and consumption in nineteenth-century northern Italy, led to directly to disease, in this case the very man-made epidemic of pellagra. There was evidently something potentially very unhealthy about maize: by the middle of the nineteenth century all the medical actors in Italy involved agreed on the link between maize subsistence and pellagra. What they disagreed on was the exact causal nature of that link, propounding two divergent, indeed mutually exclusive, explanatory models. How the cultural dominance of one explanatory model, at the expense of another, came about; what it tells us about the nature of Italian medical science in the last few decades of the nineteenth century; and what its dominance meant for pellagra sufferers, is the subject of this chapter
La purpurea meraviglia. Storia del pomodoro in Italia
Get PDFQuando pensiamo alla cucina italiana, il pomodoro è uno degli ingredienti indispensabili, dalla pasta alla pizza, dalla panzanella alle insalate. Non a caso l'Italia è oggi il primo produttore europeo, con 6 milioni di tonnellate all'anno. Anche i dietologi lo consigliano, perché contiene un anti-ossidante, che riduce il rischio di molte malattie. Senza questo ortaggio il mondo sarebbe molto più triste. Pochi sanno però che fino a Ottocento inoltrato le casalinghe e i cuochi italiani in pratica lo utilizzavano pochissimo: introdotto come curiosità botanica, rimase a lungo soltanto una "purpurea meraviglia", una curiosità esotica da assaggiare con diffidenza e a piccole dosi. David Gentilcore racconta la lunga e avventurosa storia dell'amore tardivo degli italiani per il pomodoro. Si parte dal primo timido incontro, il 31 ottobre 1548, quando un maggiordomo portò a Cosimo de' Medici un cesto con i "pomidoro", e si arriva fino a oggi, con la moda della "dieta mediterranea" e la raccolta affidata agli immigrati in tutto il Meridione
David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe. Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800
No full textDavid Gentilcore est Professeur d’Histoire moderne à l’université de Leicester, au Royaume-Uni. Au cours des dix dernières années, ses travaux se sont principalement focalisés sur l’histoire de l’alimentation en Italie, autour de deux ouvrages traitant de la consommation de la pomme de terre et de la tomate. Il ne s’agit toutefois pas de l’unique centre d’intérêt de l’auteur qui, toujours en s’appuyant sur le cas italien, avait publié un ouvrage sur l’histoire de la médecine, et plus précisém..
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe. Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800
No full textFood and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this advice.
David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works. The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter bibliographies with web links included to further aid study.
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to the relationship between food, health and medicine for history students and scholars alike
Spunti per le ricerche future a mo' di conclusione
No full textPartendo da un bilancio sui saggi presenti nel volume, il contributo indica alcuni temi di particolare rilevanza ancora da affrontare, sui quali sarà possibile proseguire le ricerche su Giovanni Antonio Nigrone in futuro: la materialità del testo, la poesia dialettale, la cultura popolare, la fortuna dell'opera
Accomodarsi alla capacità del popolo : stategie, metodi e impatto delle missioni nel regno di Napoli, 1600-1800
Full text linkDavid Gentilcore, «Accomodarsi alla capacità del popolo» : strategie, metodi e impatto dette missioni net Regno di Napoli, 1600-1800, p. 689-722.
Per oltre due secoli le missioni popolari costituirono un aspetto cruciale della vita religiosa, soprattutto in zone periferiche dell'Europa, dove numerosi ordini religiosi e congregazioni missionarie cercavano di tessere una rete di evangelizzazione e di istruzione catechistica. Lo studio tratta principalmente della Terra d'Otranto, provincia del Regno di Napoli (attuale Puglia meridionale), offrendo un'analisi comparativa dell'attività missionaria, sottolineando il lavoro importante ma allo stesso tempo controverso della Compagnia di Gesù. Si comincia con una discussione delle varie strategie missionarie, a cui fa seguito una messa a confronto delle tecniche e dei metodi adottati dai vari gruppi missionari per mettere in pratica le loro strategie, e si conclude con un'analisi dell'impatto che le missioni ebbero sulle popolazioni locali.Gentilcore David. Accomodarsi alla capacità del popolo : stategie, metodi e impatto delle missioni nel regno di Napoli, 1600-1800. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, tome 109, n°2. 1997. pp. 689-722
I disegni e i discorsi di Giovanni Antonio Nigrone «fontanaro e ingegniero de acqua» (1585-1609 ca.). VOLUME SECONDO. Raccolta di saggi a cura di Gaia Bruno e David Gentilcore
Full text linkIl volume che qui si presenta raccoglie i saggi di diversi autori sul manoscritto che Giovanni Antonio Nigrone, «fontanaro e ingegniero de acqua» attivo a Napoli tra la fine del XVI e l’inizio del XVII secolo, compose durante tutto l’arco della sua vita professionale. Esso costituisce un pendant dell’edizione critica del testo, da poco uscita per i tipi di Viella. Oltre alla trascrizione e all’interpretazione dello scritto, infatti, è stato necessario interrogare studiosi esperti di diversi argomenti – dalla storia dell’arte a quella del giardino, dell’astrologia e dei terremoti – per poter arrivare a una maggiore comprensione del significato di questo manoscritto e del valore che esso riveste come documento per la storia dell’acqua, della cultura tardo rinascimentale e della società napoletana dell’epoca
Venetian Mental Asylums Database (VMAD), 1842-1912
No full textVMAD, the Venetian Mental Asylums Database' provides a key resource for exploring the suffering, conceptualisation and treatment of mental illness in nineteenth-century Italy, within a broad social, cultural, economic and medical context. It is the first Italian historical psychiatric data set to be published and it is hoped that it will allow comparison between the extensive work on 'insanity's archive' in the English-speaking world and Europe (particularly France and Germany) with the much less studied Italian experience. VMAD makes use of the records of the two chief asylums for the provinces of the Veneto: San Servolo (for men) and San Clemente (for women). It is based on the files which were kept for each patient and which record a wide range of information on standardised, printed forms: patient's name, place of birth and residence, age and sex, economic status, occupation, family members, nature of the illness and patient behaviour, length of stay, as well as all the stages of treatment and other interventions (dietary, pharmacological, surgical, etc.), and their impact, throughout the patient's stay, until the patient was either discharged or died in care. VMAD records one year in five, beginning with 1842 for the men (San Servolo) and in 1873 for the women (San Clemente, the year it opened), and ends in 1912. It records 5,701 admittances, corresponding to 4,261 different patients, of whom 2,492 men and 2,129 women. The preparation and publication of VMAD, by Egidio Priani and David Gentilcore, was undertaken as part of the Economic and Social Research Council research grant 'Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930'
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