Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages
Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context
- 340 pages
- English
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Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages
Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context
About this book
This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However, whilst medieval feasting in England, France and Italy has been thoroughly studied, Spain and Portugal have both been somewhat neglected in this area of study. This volume analyses how medieval men of the Iberian Peninsula questioned themselves about different aspects deemed important in social feasting. It investigates the acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and religion. The book also shows how this shared society and culture, as well as their attitude towards food, connected them to a Western European tradition.
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in food and feasting from the perspectives of literature, history, language, art, religion and medicine, and to those interested in a social, cultural and literary overview of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Middle Ages.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Framing the importance of banquets in the late Middle Ages
- 1 How should I eat before a king? Feasts as public display of moral manners
- 2 Rhetoric as a social virtue: Holding conversations when eating in public
- 3 The theory of humours applied to food in the Middle Ages: From the Graeco-Roman tradition to mediaeval Latin Europe
- 4 Biblical feasts in the thirteenth century: Miniatures in the Bibles historiales
- 5 A caution against excess: Gula in John Gower’s works
- 6 Eating with the lords of Portugal: Continuities and discontinuities from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries
- 7 Imagining the meal of a crusader: Food, feasting and fasting in Baudouin de Sebourc
- 8 Don Juan Manuel and food: Eating and didacticism. Mirrors of princes, regiments of health and treatises on the virtues and vices in the world view of a fourteenth-century Castilian aristocrat
- 9 Food, political elites and cultural invective in the poetry of the Cancioneros
- 10 Religious context and eating in late Middle Ages castile: Aubergines as a conflict between Jews, Muslims, and Christians
- 11 Food in popular culture: Wording, practice and symbolic aspects in Castilian proverb collections
- 12 The land of Cockaigne in European literatures (thirteenth–fourteenth centuries)
- Index