ISBN:
9780300182361
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Woolgar, C. M Culture of food in England, 1200-1500
DDC:
940.1
Keywords:
Food habits - Great Britain - History - To 1500
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Food habits - Great Britain - History - To 1500
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND CURRENCY -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE FOOD CULTURES -- The characteristics of medieval food -- Meals and their structure -- Where was food eaten? -- Gender and food -- Children and food -- CHAPTER TWO COOKING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE -- CHAPTER THREE THE CULTURE OF DRINK ANDDRINKING -- Drinking vessels and commemoration -- CHAPTER FOUR BREAD, MEAT AND DAIRY FOODS -- Meat and its preservation -- Dairying -- CHAPTER FIVE SAUCES AND SPICES, SUGARS AND PRESERVES -- Making sauces
Abstract:
Eating sauces and spices -- Oils -- Honey, sugars and preserves -- CHAPTER SIX GARDENS, WILD FOODS, FISH AND HUNTING -- Gardens, fruit and wild plant foods -- Fish -- Hunting and wildfowling -- CHAPTER SEVEN CIVIC FOOD CULTURE AND THE GUILDS -- Food and drink in civic life -- Guild feasts and food culture -- The location and setting of the Stratford feast -- The commodities of the Stratford feast -- Cooking and cuisine -- Food waste and alms -- The Stratford feast in context -- CHAPTER EIGHT FOODWAYS AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS -- Food at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury -- Dining at St Augustine's
Abstract:
Cuisine and religious women -- CHAPTER NINE THE ELITE TABLE -- CHAPTER TEN COOKS AND KITCHENS, DIETETICS AND FOODS -- Supplying and provisioning -- Dietetics and foods -- CHAPTER ELEVEN HUNGER AND FAMINE -- CHAPTER TWELVE FOOD AND POPULAR MENTALITIES -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Note:
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http://geschichtswissenschaft.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/universitypressscholarship/dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300181913.001.0001
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