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At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Series: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Book 18

Medieval & Renaissance History

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ISBN10: 2503523986
ISBN13: 9782503523989
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.62
Language: English
This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought.

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