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Bread Of Dreams: Food And Fantasy In Early Modern Europe
Author: Camporesi, Piero; Author: Translator Gentilcore, David
Paperback; Notes, Index
224 pages
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226092585

This study examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe. It develops the claim that many people in early-modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs.



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