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Learning (to) taste: food, aesthetics, and education in early modern France
Von Hoffmann, Viktoria
2019In The Senses and Society, 14 (2), p. 131-147
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Keywords :
sense of taste; history of the body; education; conduct books; sin of gluttony; early modern period
Abstract :
[en] This paper explores the intersection between taste and education in the early modern period. The first part investigates the close connection between the sense of taste and the sin of gluttony, highlighting taste’s close association with food disorders in the late Middle Ages and early modernity. Silencing taste was by then a key aspect of the education of the body, which needed to be learned from the earliest age, at home as well as at school. The second part charts the rise of a moderate and honest gourmandise from the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries onward, accompanied by the invention of the polite bon goût and later the aesthetic taste of beauty, which contributed to a new social valorization of taste, while also complicating contemporary practices of learning (to) taste. Using a wide variety of early modern printed sources, including conduct books, religious and moral treatises, books of emblems, and treatises on the senses and on taste in particular, as well as aesthetic works, this paper sheds light on the multiple ways in which taste – of the body as much as of the mind – was used, learned, and displayed, hence revealing a transformation of the experience and understanding of taste throughout the early modern period, as well as its impact on educational practices.
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
Von Hoffmann, Viktoria ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > Histoire culturelle
Language :
English
Title :
Learning (to) taste: food, aesthetics, and education in early modern France
Publication date :
2019
Journal title :
The Senses and Society
Publisher :
Routledge
Special issue title :
Learning to make sense: interdisciplinary perspectives on sensory education and embodied enculturation
Volume :
14
Issue :
2
Pages :
131-147
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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