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A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age

Author : Massimo Montanari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995363
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age written by Massimo Montanari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to symbol, became ever more complex and integral to Europe's culture and economy. The period saw the growth of culinary literature, the introduction of new spices and cuisines as a result of trade and war, the impact of the Black Death on food resources, the widening gap between what was eaten by the rich and what by the poor, as well as the influence of religion on food rituals. A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age

Author : Massimo Montanari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474269919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age written by Massimo Montanari and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to symbol, became ever more complex and integral to Europe's culture and economy. The period saw the growth of culinary literature, the introduction of new spices and cuisines as a result of trade and war, the impact of the Black Death on food resources, the widening gap between what was eaten by the rich and what by the poor, as well as the influence of religion on food rituals. A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age

Author : Amy Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780857850287
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age by : Amy Bentley

Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age written by Amy Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern age (1920–2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. As advances in agricultural production in the post-World War II era propelled population growth, a significant portion of the population gained access to cheap, industrially produced food while significant numbers remained mired in hunger and malnutrition. Further, as globalization allowed unprecedented access to foods from all parts of the globe, it also hastened environmental degradation, contributed to poor health, and remained a key element in global politics, economics and culture. A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995371
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance written by Ken Albala and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous investigation among physicians, theologians, agronomists and even poets and artists. Concern with eating was, in fact, central to the cultural dynamism we now recognize as the Renaissance. A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Medieval Tastes

Author : Massimo Montanari
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539088
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Tastes written by Massimo Montanari and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization, he immerses readers in the passionate debates and bold inventions that transformed food from a simple staple to a potent factor in health and a symbol of social and ideological standing. Montanari returns to the prestigious Salerno school of medicine, the "mother of all medical schools," to plot the theory of food that took shape in the twelfth century. He reviews the influence of the Near Eastern spice routes, which introduced new flavors and cooking techniques to European kitchens, and reads Europe's earliest cookbooks, which took cues from old Roman practices that valued artifice and mixed flavors. Dishes were largely low-fat, and meats and fish were seasoned with vinegar, citrus juices, and wine. He highlights other dishes, habits, and battles that mirror contemporary culinary identity, including the refinement of pasta, polenta, bread, and other flour-based foods; the transition to more advanced cooking tools and formal dining implements; the controversy over cooking with oil, lard, or butter; dietary regimens; and the consumption and cultural meaning of water and wine. As people became more cognizant of their physicality, individuality, and place in the cosmos, Montanari shows, they adopted a new attitude toward food, investing as much in its pleasure and possibilities as in its acquisition.

A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age

Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135099538X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age written by Beat Kümin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general population, elite tastes shifted from Renaissance opulence toward the greater simplicity and elegance of dining à la française. At the same time, growing spatial mobility and urbanization boosted the demand for professional cooking and commercial catering. An unprecedented wealth of artistic, literary and medical discourses on food and drink allows fascinating insights into contemporary responses to these transformations. A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Medieval Fare

Author : Martha M. Daas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858960X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Fare written by Martha M. Daas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its cultural and religious makeup, medieval Iberia represented a crossroads of cultures. This crossroads was reflected in large and small ways. On a grand scale, we see the convergence of intellectual ideas and great innovations in agriculture and science. On a more intimate level, we see an intersection of cultures as reflected in habits of consumption. The acts of producing food, cooking, and eating demonstrate the political realities of the land: at times interdependent, and, at times, at odds. Food, as an archeological and anthropological tool, can help us understand a particular moment in time. In considering the nature of consumption, we may arrive at the heart of a culture. In Medieval Fare, the author explores food references found in a number of medieval Iberian texts in order to expand our knowledge of daily life in the Middle Ages. By examining the depiction of food and consumption, this pioneering study provides insight into the cultural, religious, and social complexities of medieval Iberia.

Forging Communities

Author : Montserrat Piera
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756428
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Forging Communities written by Montserrat Piera and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind’s technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing of food customs. The very act of eating and the pleasure derived from it are metaphorically linked to two other sublime activities of the human experience: sexuality and the search for the divine. This interdisciplinary study of food in medieval and early modern communities connects threads of history conventionally examined separately or in isolation. The intersection of foodstuffs with politics, religion, economics, and culture enhances our understanding of historical developments and cultural continuities through the centuries, giving insight that today, as much as in the past, we are what we eat and what we eat is never devoid of meaning.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995185
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age written by Linda Kalof and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities of medieval Western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh but an entity that changed its character depending on its age, its interactions with its environment and its diet. For example, a slave would have been marked by her language, her name, her religion or even by a sign burned onto her skin, not by her color alone. Covering the period from 500 to 1500 and using sources that range across the full spectrum of medieval literary, scientific, medical and artistic production, this volume explores the rich variety of medieval views of both the real and the metaphorical body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and age, cultural representations and popular beliefs and the self and society.

The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500

Author : C. M. Woolgar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182368
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500 by : C. M. Woolgar

Download or read book The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500 written by C. M. Woolgar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavors and trends from abroad had an impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. From the pauper’s bowl to elite tables, from early fad diets to the perceived moral superiority of certain foods, and from regional folk remedies to luxuries such as lampreys, Woolgar illuminates desire, necessity, daily rituals, and pleasure across four centuries.

A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995355
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity written by Paul Erdkamp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On the one hand, the Mediterranean landscape and climate encouraged particular crops – notably cereals, vines and olives – but, with the risks of crop failure ever-present, control of food resources was vital to economic and political power. On the other hand, diet and dining reflected complex social hierarchies and relationships. What was eaten, with whom and when was a fundamental part of the expression of one's role and place in society. In addition, symbolism and ritual suffused foodstuffs, their preparation and consumption. A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Italian Cuisine

Author : Alberto Capatti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231122322
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Italian Cuisine written by Alberto Capatti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.

A History of Food in Literature

Author : Charlotte Boyce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135022070
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A History of Food in Literature written by Charlotte Boyce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature.

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age

Author : Michael Leslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995878
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age written by Michael Leslie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age

Author : Valerie L. Garver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350078212
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age written by Valerie L. Garver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and literary depictions underlined work's cultural value. The vast majority of medieval people engaged in agriculture because it was the only way they could obtain food. Yet their work led to innovations in technology and production and allowed others to engage in specialized labor, helping to drive the growth of cities. Many workers moved to seek employment and to improve their living conditions. For those who could not work, charity was often available, and many individuals and institutions provided forms of social welfare. Guilds protected their members and created means for the transmission of skills. When they were not at work, medieval Christians were to meet their religious obligations yet many also enjoyed various pastimes. A consideration of medieval work is therefore one of medieval society in all its creativity and complexity and that is precisely what this volume provides. A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

Author : Juanita Ruys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350091766
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age written by Juanita Ruys and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we see a move from the ascetic regulation of emotions to the affective piety of the later medieval period that valued the believer's identification with the Passion of Christ and the sorrow of Mary. In science and medicine, the nature and causes of emotions, their role in constituting the human person, and their impact on the same became a subject of academic inquiry. Emotions also played an increasingly important public role, evidenced in populace-wide events such as conversion and the strategies of rulership. Between 350 and 1300, emotions were transformed from something to be transcended into a location for meditation upon what it means to be human.

A Cultural History of Food

Author : Amy Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474270755
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Food written by Amy Bentley and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Cultural History of Food presents a comprehensive, authoritative overview of food from ancient times to the present. Together, the six volumes cover almost 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions."--Site web de l'éditeur.