Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins

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.

• | By (Author): Francine (Director's Fellow, Director's Fellow, NYPL Center for Scholars and Writers) Prose
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2003
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0195156994
• | ISBN-13: 9780195156997