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Author Normore, Christina, author.

Title A feast for the eyes : art, performance, and the late medieval banquet / Christina Normore.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: setting the table -- Between the dishes -- Spectator-spectacle -- Efficacy and hypocrisy -- Dining well -- Stranger at the table -- Wedding reception.
Summary Even centuries later, to read accounts of late mediaeval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where gilded stags burst into song, the Holy Church may suddenly appear to beg aid from the assembled nobles, and four and twenty musicians play within a pie. This book brings together the understudied array of surviving artworks, archival documents, chroniclers accounts and cookbooks to retrace these events and reassess the late mediaeval visual culture in which they were so highly prized.
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Subject Fasts and feasts -- Europe -- History -- 14th century.
Fasts and feasts.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 14th century
Subject Fasts and feasts -- Europe -- History -- 15th century.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Dinners and dining -- Europe -- History -- 14th century.
Dinners and dining.
Dinners and dining -- Europe -- History -- 15th century.
Entremés -- History -- 14th century.
Entremés -- History -- 15th century.
Europe -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs -- 14th century.
Entremés.
Courts and courtiers.
Europe -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs -- 15th century.
Fasts and feasts in art.
Fasts and feasts in art.
Dinners and dining in art.
Dinners and dining in art.
Manners and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Customs & Traditions.
Courts and courtiers -- Social life and customs.
Chronological Term 1300-1499
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Normore, Christina. Feast for the eyes 9780226242200 (DLC) 2014026574 (OCoLC)883305110
ISBN 9780226242347 (electronic book)
022624234X (electronic book)
9780226242200 (print)
022624220X