This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas

A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France.

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