Bread of Dreams Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

Name: Bread of Dreams Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780226092584

ISBN-10: 0226092585

ISBN-13: 9780226092584

Edition: 1989

Authors: Piero Camporesi, David Gentilcore

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In a rich and engaging book that illuminates the lives and attitudes of peasants in preindustrial Europe, Piero Camporesi makes the unexpected and fascinating claim that these people lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their very hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to infants and children, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday lives of peasants, beggars, and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.87" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The 'Disease of Wretchedness'



Elusive Bread



Sacred and Profane Cannibalism



'They Set Out into the World of the Vagabond'



'They Rotted in Their Own Dung'



The World Turned Upside Down



'Famine of Living' and 'Times of Suspicion'



Night-time



Ritual Battles and Popular Frenzies



Medicinia Pauperum



'Tightness of Purse'



Collective Vertigo



Hyperbolic Dreams



Artificial Paradises



Poppyseed Bread



The 'Fickle and Verminuous Colony'



Putrid Worms and Vile Snails



A City of Mummies



The Triumph of Poverty


Notes


Index