Author: Spencer, Colin
Title: The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism
Description: Hanover [New Hampshire], Univ. Press of New England, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,402 pp. Minor rubbing. Light binding & page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: In the Beginning: The Decisive Primate; Hominids: Toolmakers & Hunters; The Emergence of Humans; Taming the Environment; Altars & Gardens;Pythagoras & His Inheritance; India; Plato to Porphyry; Early Christianity; Gnostic Sects & the Manicheans; The Bogomils, the Cathars, & the Orthodox Church; The Renaissance; The Clockwork Universe; The Rise of Humanism; Docks & Dandelions; Sunlight & Sandals; Sentient or Machine?; Afterword; Appendices: The Later History of Buddhism; Manicheanism in China; Modern Hinduism; The Rise of the Vegetarian Cookery Book.

Keywords: Vegetarian History, Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, History of Religion, Religious Heretics, Heresy Heresies, Diet, ,