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With the circulation of dietary knowledge, the motivations for particular dietary choices and behavior, or gluttony’s relationship to health and medicine, became particularly pressing in the later Middle Ages. The chapter explores the symbolic and material impacts of gluttony, including disturbed reason and speech.
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Langum, V. (2016). Gluttony. In: Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44990-0_8
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