Anthimus: On the Observance of Foods

by Mark Grant

The First French Cookery Book 'The earliest work to treat of food in what we may properly term the "Middle Ages".' Terence Scully, The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages Anthimus was a Greek doctor condemned by the Emperor in Constantinople to a life of exile at the court of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, barbarian ruler of Italy at the beginning of the 6th century AD. In the course of his life in Ravenna, he was sent as ambassador to the King of the Franks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903018528
• ISBN13: 9781903018521
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"