Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe by David Gentilcore, James Harvey Young, Piero Camporesi

Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

David Gentilcore, James Harvey Young, Piero Camporesi

218 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 t...

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