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Bread of Dreams

Sunday, 19 March 2006 @ 17:25

Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern EuropeFood and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
by Piero Camporesi (1989)

Divided into 19 chapters, Bread of Dreams is an account on how (as summarized by the jacket) “many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs.”