Forging Communities: Food and Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Southwestern Europe

by Montserrat Piera

Book Overview

Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind's technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682260682
• ISBN13: 9781682260685
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"