IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 522: The Rich Man's Feast and the Poor Man's Fare: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Nutritional Health in the Middle Ages, I - Regimen for Rich and Poor
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Wellcome Trust / Medica: Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alex Bamji, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 522-a | Rich and Poor at the Hospital's Table: The Case of Nossa Senhora do Pópolo, 1518-1580 (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine |
| Paper 522-b | Medieval Dietetic Instructions Found in the Cairo Genizah in Prescriptions from the Mediterranean Area (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine |
| Paper 522-c | Applying Cultural Methods in Research on Medical History: Medieval Arab Medicine as a Case Study (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Literacy and Orality, Medicine |
| Abstract | It is often argued that medieval medical theories about diet were only put into practice by the rich – if then! These three papers explore medieval dietetics for both rich and poor in a variety of cultural contexts: a Portuguese hospital, the Jewish community in Cairo, and Middle Eastern Muslim communities. All three papers consider holistic theories of the body and explore how the manipulation of the four humours was important even for poor and illiterate individuals. The papers will show how learned ideas could circulate very effectively between levels of society. |