Fast and Feast

Food in Medieval Society

Bridget Ann Henisch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1986
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-00424-2 (ISBN)

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Engagingly written and fully illustrated, Fast and Feast explores the medieval approach to food, its preparation, and its presentation. Since attitudes toward food were shaped by the religious and social ideas of the period, the medieval perspective is clearly developed for the modern reader and, in turn, sheds light on the character of life in the Middle Ages. The subject is examined from the varied points of view of all concerned: host, guest, cook, and servant.

Bridget Ann Henisch draws her material from a wide range of primary sources: devotional literature, sermons, courtesy books, recipe collections, household accounts, chronicles, and romances. Most of these works were written in England during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, but Henisch also makes reference to texts from other periods and countries. Readers with an interest in food will find her important study both informative and entertaining.

Bridget Ann Henisch is author of Medieval Armchair Travels and Cakes and Characters, and coauthor of The Photographic Experience, 1839–1914 (Penn State, 1994).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.1986
Zusatzinfo	46 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-271-00424-X / 027100424X
ISBN-13	978-0-271-00424-2 / 9780271004242
Zustand	Neuware