Bread of Dreams
Subtitle: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
Contributors: David Gentilcore (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780226092584
First sentence: 'One was really tired of being in the world,' noted a French rural curate in his diary during the seventeenth century, interpreting the desperation of the most wretched parishioners who died of hunger in his village.