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1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Food habits -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Dinners and dining -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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Dinners and dining
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Food habits
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Manners and customs
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Social history -- Medieval
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Eetgewoonten.
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Middeleeuwen.
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Dinners and dining -- Food and Drink. -- Europe -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlin, Martha.
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Rosenthal, Joel T., 1934-
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| LC no. |
98016277 |
| ISBN |
9780826419200 |
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0826419208 |
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9781472598868 |
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1472598865 |
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1282309919 |
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9781282309913 |
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9786612309915 |
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6612309911 |
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