The Medieval Health Handbook - Tacuinum Sanitatis

by Luisa Cogliati Arano, Adele Westbrook, Oscar Ratti

The advice offered by the lively images from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries featured here is sometimes comically anachronistic, but is often evidence of a remarkably modern sophistication concerning balanced eating, sleeping, and exercising.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Historical, Reference

156 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1992