{"product_id":"conserving-health-in-early-modern-culture-bodies-and-environments-in-italy-and-england-9781526113474","title":"Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England?  Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts \u003ci\u003eConserving health in early modern culture \u003c\/i\u003edocuments the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six ‘Non-Naturals’: the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the ‘passions of the soul’. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe following two chapters are available open access on a CC-BY-NC-ND license here: http:\/\/www.oapen.org\/search?identifier=633180\u003cbr\u003e3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England - Leah Astbury\u003cbr\u003e4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England - Hannah Newton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This volume represents a significant contribution to the burgeoning discussion of the non-naturals and to the comparative history of early modern European health care that will hopefully inspire further comparisons of other European examples.’\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Evans, University of Hertfordshire, \u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 32, No. 1\u003cbr\u003eHistory of emotions\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society – Sandra Cavallo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared – Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 ‘What to expect when you’re always expecting’: frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy – Caroline Castiglione\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘Ordering the infant’: caring for newborns in early modern England – Leah Astbury (available open access) \u003cbr\u003e4 ‘She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England – Hannah Newton (available open access)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Airs and places\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano – Maria Conforti\u003cbr\u003e6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population – Maria Pia Donato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Spiritual health and bodily health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households – Sasha Handley\u003cbr\u003e8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies – Tessa Storey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eV: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Chasing ‘good air’ and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome – Frances Gage\u003cbr\u003e10 Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel – Marta Ajmar\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020017697111,"sku":"9781526113474","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526113474.jpg?v=1750782084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conserving-health-in-early-modern-culture-bodies-and-environments-in-italy-and-england-9781526113474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}