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9780195312058
This brief history of gluttony traces the changing cultural attitudes towards food and pleasure, scarcity and abundance. It reveals how notions of saintliness and purity have helped form modern views of enjoyment, self-mortification and ultimately nutrition.Prose, Francine is the author of 'Gluttony The Seven Deadly Sins', published 2006 under ISBN 9780195312058 and ISBN 0195312058.
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