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PHYSIOLOGY AND FOOD: CRISES, DIETARY SHIFTS, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE

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dc.contributor Eoff, Shirley
dc.contributor Lynch, Sarah B.
dc.contributor Archer, Kenna Lang
dc.creator Dudley, Margaret
dc.date 2021-05-27T20:05:35Z
dc.date 2021-05-27T20:05:35Z
dc.date 2021-05
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-18T10:47:05Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-18T10:47:05Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/2346.1/37670
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/26524
dc.description The first half of the fourteenth century completely altered Europe through a series of disasters, particularly the Great European Famine, the Great Bovine Pestilence, and the Black Death. These alterations included the daily diet and the physical health of the people of northern Europe. One disaster followed another in rapid succession, impacting the food supply and affecting northern European society to its core, quite literally to the very hearts of the survivors. With each new event, trends in eating habits shifted to accommodate the current circumstances. Famines, new food sources, and increased availability of food collided with medicine and magic cures to create new daily diets for the European people. Some of these newfound culinary trends persisted even after the circumstances in which they initially arose. Utilizing contemporary writings, archaeological evidence, and modern famine research, this paper examines these alterations in European diet and how they led to physiological outcomes in the survivors of the early fourteenth century disasters, some of which impacted people decades and even generations later.
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dc.language en_US
dc.subject Black Death
dc.subject The Great Bovine Pestilence
dc.subject 1348
dc.subject The Great European Famine
dc.subject Climate shift
dc.subject Warfare
dc.subject the Hundred Years War
dc.subject Scottish War for Independence
dc.subject food
dc.subject dietary changes
dc.subject diet
dc.subject medieval europe
dc.subject medieval medicine
dc.subject medieval health
dc.subject food history
dc.subject plague
dc.title PHYSIOLOGY AND FOOD: CRISES, DIETARY SHIFTS, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
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dc.type Thesis


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