 Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1836-4
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224 pages
October 1996, Polity
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Preface by Roy Porter.
Introduction.
1. The 'Disease of Wretchedness'.
2. Elusive Bread.
3. Sacred and Profane Cannibalism.
4.'They Set Out into the World of the Vagabond'. 5. 'They Rotted in Their Own Dung'.
6. The World Turned Upside Down.
7. 'Famine of Living' and 'Times of Suspicion'.
8. Night-time.
9. Ritual Battles and Popular Frenzies.
10. Medicina Pauperum. .
11. 'Tightness of Purse'.
12. Collective Vertigo.
13. Hyperbolic Dreams.
14. Artificial Paradises.
15. Poppyseed Bread.
16. The 'Fickle and Verminous Colony'.
17. Putrid Worms and Vile Snails.
18. A City of Mummies.
19. The Triumph of Poverty.
Notes.
Index.
