The Land of Hunger
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:8th Dec '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.
The Land of Hunger is a graphic and engaging journey into the folk culture of early modern Europe. It will consolidate Camporesi’s reputation as one of the most original and imaginative historians of our time.
"Ranging across anthropology, folklore, popular religion, medicine and history, and crafted with unusual dramatic skill, Camporesi's books open to our gaze a pre-industrial underclass of subsistence farmers, seasonal labourers and vagrants, people who lived on bread when they could get it, wild roots and berries when they could not, stilling the pangs of hunger with herbal drugs like wormwood and hellebore." Times Literary Supplement
"Piero Camporesi is one of the most stimulating and path-breaking historians." Roy Porter
ISBN: 9780745608884
Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
Weight: 463g
240 pages