Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. This modern-spelling edition is the first to make available to a modern audience three of the most important dietaries from the sixteenth century; Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment, and William Bullein's Government of Health, all popular and influential works that were typical of the genre. These works are here introduced, contextualized and, most importantly, edited for the first time, making them more readily...