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Title Food and eating in medieval Europe / edited by Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal.

Publication Info. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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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.
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Subject Food habits -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Food habits.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Dinners and dining -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Dinners and dining.
Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Carlin, Martha.
Rosenthal, Joel T., 1934-
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 book)
0826419208 (electronic book)
1852851481
9781852851484