C. Anne Wilson: Water of Life | Buch

Cover: 9781903018460 | Water of Life | C. Anne Wilson | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2006

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This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commercial production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000. It is important because Ms Wilson has explored byways of early history that have been little noticed by previous scholars. She links the art of distilling to alchemical practice; to the Dionysian cults of ancient Greece and Rome; to the development of the art by the Gnostic mystic Christian sects (who greatly influenced the Coptic church in lower Egypt and Ethiopia); to the researches of the Persians and Arabs; to the preservation of the art by various heretic cults in western Europe such as the Bogomils and Cathars and, of course, the Templars; then into more mainstream development by the medieval and Renaissance alchemists; before comparative relaxation into the domestic history of distilling in England for the manufacture of strong liquor and the making of medicinal and perfumed waters by members of the landed gentry.

Über den Autor

C. Anne Wilson is the author of Food and Drink in Britain (1973), the most authorative history of the subject to date. She has also edited several volumes in the series Food in Society, produced by the Leeds group of food historians. By profession she was a librarian.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781903018460
ISBN-10:	1903018463
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wilson, C. Anne
Hersteller:	Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 193 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	C. Anne Wilson
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.12.2006
Gewicht:	0,598 kg