Pain and Hunger
Tom Shippey, 7 December 1989
Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850
by Roy Porter.
Manchester, 280 pp., £19.95, August 1989,0 7190 1903 6 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Manchester, 280 pp., £19.95, August 1989,
Popular Errors
by Laurent Joubert and Gregory David de Rocher.
University of Alabama Press, 348 pp., $49.95, July 1989,0 8173 0408 8 Show More
by Laurent Joubert and Gregory David de Rocher.
University of Alabama Press, 348 pp., $49.95, July 1989,
Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
by Piero Camporesi, translated by David Gentilcore.
Polity, 212 pp., £19.50, May 1989,0 7456 0349 1 Show More
by Piero Camporesi, translated by David Gentilcore.
Polity, 212 pp., £19.50, May 1989,
Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics and History
by Mary KilbourneMatossian.
Yale, 190 pp., £18, November 1989,0 300 03949 2 Show More
by Mary KilbourneMatossian.
Yale, 190 pp., £18, November 1989,
“... of which particular individuals the dead happened to be. Statistics, indeed, are at the base of Mary Matossian’s part-complementary, part-competing thesis in Poisons of the Past. Matossian thinks like Camporesi that food adulteration was a normal part of daily life in all premodern eras: but her main target is the ... ”
