At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Timothy J. Tomasik, Juliann M. Vitullo
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.
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Anno:
2007
Casa editrice:
Brepols
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
246
ISBN 10:
2503536921
ISBN 13:
9782503536927
Collana:
Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 18
File:
PDF, 3.27 MB
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english, 2007