Foodways and daily life in medieval Anatolia : a new social history / by Nicolas Trepanier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trépanier, Nicolas, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Turkey--History--To 1500.

Food habits.

Food--Social aspects--Turkey--History--To 1500.

Food.

Food--Social aspects.

History.

Turkey--Civilization--1288-1918.

Turkey.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xvi, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Summary:

"This book investigates daily life in Anatolia during the fourteenth century, the dawn of the Ottoman era, through the many ways in which humans experience food. This includes meals and the social interactions that they entail, of course, but also the production activities of peasants and gardeners, the exchanges of food between the common folk, merchants and the state, and the religious landscape that unfolds around food-related beliefs and practices. Using an array of sources ranging from hagiographies to archaeology and from Sufi poetry to endowment deeds, the resulting study presents a broad picture of a society's daily life and worldviews through the multiplicity of its interactions with food, in a style that both scholars and non-specialists will enjoy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Food Production

Chapter 2. Food Exchanges

Chapter 3. Food Consumption

Chapter 4. Food and Religion

Conclusion

Appendix: Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292759299

0292759290

OCLC:

885148297