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At the table : metaphorical and material cultures of food in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; Volume 18.
- Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; Volume 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--Europe--History.
- Food habits.
- Dinners and dining--Europe--History.
- Dinners and dining.
- Renaissance.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe--Social life and customs.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 225 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behavior and of thought.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 2-503-53692-1
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