| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The feast hall in Anglo-Saxon society / Marjorie A. Brown -- Pilgrims to table : food consumption in Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Elizabeth M. Biebel -- Fast food and urban living standards in medieval England / Martha Carlin -- Did the peasants really starve in medieval England? / Christopher Dyer -- Cannibalism as an aspect of famine in two English chronicles / Julia Marvin -- Driven by drink? Ale consumption and the agrarian economy of the London region, c. 1300-1400 / James A. Galloway -- Making sense of medieval culinary records : much done, but much more to do / Constance B. Hieatt -- Feeding medieval cities : some historical approaches / Margaret Murphy -- The household of Alice de Bryene, 1412-13 / ffiona Swabey -- Queu du roi, roi des queux : Taillevent and the profession of medieval cooking / Alan S. Weber -- Medieval and Renaissance wedding banquets and other feasts / Susan F. Weiss. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume approach their subject from a variety of angles: from the reality of starvation and the reliance on "fast food" of those without cooking facilities, to the consumption of an English lady's household and the career of a cook in the French royal household. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Dinners and dining -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Europe -- Social life and customs.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Carlin, Martha.
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Rosenthal, Joel Thomas, 1934-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Food and eating in medieval Europe. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1998 1852851481 9781852851484 (DLC) 98016277 (OCoLC)38853897 |
| ISBN |
9780826419200 (electronic bk.) |
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0826419208 (electronic bk.) |
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1852851481 |
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9781852851484 |
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