Food in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815313458 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 224 str.

Adamson Weiss; Melitta Weiss Adamson

Opis

The enormous interest in recent years in the role of food in history has inspired this scholarly and entertaining collection of ten newly commissioned articles by medievalists

Spis treści

Tempering Medieval Food, Terence Scully * Sorting through the Titles of Medieval Dishes: What Is, or Is Not, a 'Blanc manger'?, Constance B. Hieatt * Interregional Influeences in Medieval Cooking, Johanna Maria van Winter * The Evolution of Culinary Techniques in the Medieval Era, Barbara Santich * Some Remarks on Medieval Cooking: The Ambras Recipe-Collection of Cod. Vind. 5486, Helmut Birhan * Nutrition in the Desert: The Exemplary Case of Desert Ermeticism, Kevin P. Roddy * Jews and Christians at the Lord's Table, Winfried Frey * Hungry Heroes in Medieval Literature, Susan E. Farrier * Pears and Pregnancy in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale', Carol A. Everest * The Games Cooks Play: Non-Sense Recipes and Practical Jokes in Medieval Literature, Melitta Weiss Adamson

O autorze

Melitta Weiss Adamson