Europe: The Middle Ages to the 17th Century
A collection of articles:
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, and the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, and the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.
- Christian and Western Literature 5th Century to 16th Century - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883
- Monasteries in the Middle Ages
- Português - Monastérios da Idade Média
- The Cathars (11th - 13th Centuries)
- Français - Les Cathars
- Maimonedes (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon) (1135-1204)
- Español - Maimónides
- St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
- Deutsch - St. Franziskus von Assisi
- Italiano - San Francesco d'Assisi
- Magyar - Assisi Szent Ferenc
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Español - Leonardo da Vinci
- Italiano - Leonardo da Vinci
- Luigi Cornaro (1465-1566)
- Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
- Philip Stubbes (pub. 1583)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- Thomas Moffet M.D. (1553-1604)
- Leonardo Lessio (1554-1623)
- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
- Pierre Gassendi (l592-1655)
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
- John Evelyn (1620-1706)
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
- John Ray (1628-1704)
- Español - John Ray
- Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Español Sir Isaac Newton
- Français Sir Isaac Newton
- Philippe Hecquet M.D. (1661-1737)
- George Granville (Lord Lansdowne) (1667-1735)
- Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733)
- George Cheyne (1671-1743)
- Food in England Since 1066 -- A Vegetarian Evolution?
- The Origins of Some Words
- Medieval Mindsets – ‘vegans’ in the middle ages - IVU Manager's blog
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