International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
	History of Vegetarianism - Europe: The Middle Ages to the 17th Century

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 - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883 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 - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883 George Granville (Lord Lansdowne) (1667-1735) Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733) George Cheyne (1671-1743) Food in England Since 1066 -- A Vegetarian Evolution? Italiano Il cibo in Inghilterra dal 1066: un'evoluzione vegetariana? The Origins of Some Words