Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England /

"Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frantzen, Allen J., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge ; New York : The Boydell Press, [2014]
Colección:Anglo-Saxon studies ; 22.
Temas:
To 1500
Food habits > England > History > To 1500.
Cooking > England > History > To 1500.
Anglo-Saxons > Implements.
Group identity > England > History > To 1500.
Anglo-Saxons > Instruments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Group identity
Cooking
Food habits
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The symbolic world of food
  • 2. Food knowledge: texts, feasts, and objects
  • 3. Food words and Old English genres
  • 4. The quernstone
  • 5. Pots for cooking and storage
  • 6. Food objects in iron
  • 7. Food objects in wood
  • 8. Food officers in handbooks of penance
  • 9. Laws, food, and settlement change
  • 10. Fasting and the Anglo-Saxon "fish event horizon"
  • 11. Conclusion: Anglo-Saxons at the table.

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