Allen J. Frantze Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval Englan (Paperback)

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Title: Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England
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Description: A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and implements associated with food contributed to social identity at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place offish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Emeritus Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.
Author: Allen J. Frantzen
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781783272457
ISBN-10: 1783272457
ISBN: 9781783272457
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Genre: History
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Release Date: 04/21/2017
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Item Weight: 457g
Type: Europe
Release Year: 2017

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