Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture
Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture Did early modern people care about their health? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture…
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Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture
Did early modern people care about their health? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents 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. And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England?
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 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'.