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What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially women of the lower social classes, typically overlooked in the written record. This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.From the Back Cover1. While these texts are not new, this is the first monograph specifically exploring their dietary recommendations for women's health. 2. Texts are approached from the cultural perspective of a person trained in folklore and anthropology, providing a perspective which is relatively rare in the examination of historical documents. The perspective in inherently multi-disciplinary. 3. An emphasis on female authors and gynecological/obstetric health makes the book an interesting addition to the corpus on medieval gender studies.About the AuthorTheresa A. Vaughan is Professor of Humanities in the department of Humanities and Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Liberal Arts, and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She obtained her Ph.D. in Folklore with a double minor in Anthropology from Indiana University. Her work focuses on women's folklore, foodways, and the Middle Ages. She is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife with Liz Locke and Pauline Greenhill, and serves on the editorial boards of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture and Journal of Folklore Research. Cover 1 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 1. Women as Healers, Women as Food Producers 24 Anthropological approaches 27 Work by medievalists 31 How can we approach medieval sources? 32 Women as healers 34 Women as food producers 37 Nurturing and gender 41 Pushed out of the medical profession, pushed out of the kitchen 43 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health 48 The Greek tradition 49 Galen of Pergamum 53 Anthimus 61 Medical writers in the medieval Islamic world 62 The medieval west 64 3. The Special Problem of Nutrition and Women’s Health 68 Class, gender, diet, and humoral theory 70 Aristotle 71 The Hippocratic Corpus 72 Soranus of Ephesus 73 Galen of Pergamum 74 The Islamic texts of the Arabic systematists 75 The Trotula 77 Hildegard of Bingen 78 De secretis mulierum 79 Regimina sanitatis and Tacuina sanitatis 81 Michele Savonarola 84 Other writers 85 Non-medical texts and folk beliefs 86 4. Theoretical Medicine vs. Practical Medicine 92 The medieval diet 94 Folk medicine 95 Medieval medicine and folk medicine 96 Women and folk medicine 99 Theoretical medicine and folk medicine 100 Efficacy and folk belief 105 Women as healers 107 Magic and belief 108 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen 112 From Book on the Conditions of Women 114 From On Treatments for Women 117 Hildegard of Bingen 118 Hildegard on natural philosophy and medicine 119 Dietary recommendations from Causae et Curae 120 Physica 123 Alcohol consumption 124 Hildegard on alcohol 126 Similarities and contrasts in the Trotula and the works of Hildegard 128 Were Hildegard and Trota practitioners of folk medicine? 132 6. The Legacy of the Trotula 136 Tacuinum sanitatis 137 Early cookbooks and health guidebooks 141 Religion and the body 145 Medieval gynaecological texts 146 The Sekenesse of Wymmen 146 7. Women’s Diets and Standards of Beauty 156 Cosmetics 157 Beauty and morality 158 Medieval conduct literature 160 Medieval ideas of beauty 165 Obesity 166 The body as symbol 172 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation 176 The female body in medieval literature 177 Food, sexuality, and religion 184 Consequences of overindulgence 188 Women and fasting 189 Religion and medical recommendations for diet 192 9. Evolving Advice for Women’s Health Through Diet 196 Women’s diet advice in the Early Modern Period 199 The death of humoral theory 202 Consciousness of health, consciousness of fashion 203 Pregnancy and diet in the modern era 205 Are women’s diets consistent across cultures? 208 Conclusion 212 Bibliography 216 Index 234 "What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially when considering the lower social classes which are typically overlooked in the written record. What can we know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages and how does the written medical tradition interact with folk medicine and other cultural factors in bothunderstanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers." -- Provided by the editor What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? 'Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours' uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially when considering the lower social classes which are typically overlooked in the written record. What can we know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages and how does the written medical tradition interact with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers. Theresa A. Vaughan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.