Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England

by Allen J. Frantzen

Book Overview

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.

Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272457
• ISBN13: 9781783272457
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"