Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales
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Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales

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Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales

About this book

In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives, Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest to specialists and a general audience, alike.

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Yes, you can access Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales by Melissa Ridley Elmes, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Melissa Ridley Elmes,Kristin Bovaird-Abbo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780367224905
eBook ISBN
9781000372137
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Grendel’s Eucharist: An Outlaw’s Last Supper
  11. 3 Food, Feasts, and Temperance: The Social Contracts of “Mete and Drink” in The Tale of Gamelyn
  12. 4 Bread Without Onions: Winning the Crusades through French Cuisine in Honorat Bovet’s 1398 Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun [Apparition of Master Jean de Meun]
  13. 5 Of Courtesy and Community: Food and Feasting in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode
  14. 6 The Preparation and Consumption of Food as Signifiers of Class and Gender Identity in Selected Premodern Texts and Examples of the Robin Hood Cinematic Canon
  15. 7 “So Shall We Take Our Dinner Sweet”: When the Greenwood Consumes the Outlaw
  16. 8 Robin Hood’s Poached Feasting in Context: Poor Knights, Disguised Kings, and Romance Parody in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode
  17. 9 The Poached Feast and the Kingly Blow: The Question of Courtesy in Late Medieval King and Commoner Narratives
  18. 10 Acting Out(Law): Feasts, Outlawry, and Identity Constructions in Two Shakespearean Comedies
  19. 11 Early Modern Fishing Practices and Seafood Culture in Robin Hood’s Fishing
  20. 12 “Bread With Danger Purchased”: Hunger, Plenty, and the Outlaw on the Early Modern Stage
  21. Index