Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context
Redaktion: Nuño, Guillermo Alvar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The present volume aims to offer a panorama of what people ate and how did they do it in the Iberian Peninsula from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003816522
• Artikelnr.: 69352616

Autorenporträt

Guillermo Alvar Nuño obtained his PhD in Latin Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He developed his teaching career at the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon, France, 2014-2017) and the University of Alcalá (2017-), where he currently teaches subjects related to the ancient and medieval worlds. As a researcher, he has worked with late antique and medieval pedagogical texts on the moral formation of ancient and medieval man. He has also researched the development of the courtly model in medieval Europe, the influence of classical authors in the Middle Ages and the development of Spanish humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Framing the importance of banquets in the late Middle Ages
(Guillermo Alvar Nuño) / 1. How should I eat before a king? Feasts as
public display of moral manners (Guillermo Alvar Nuño) / 2. Rhetorics as a
social virtue: holding conversations when eating in public (María Díez
Yáñez) / 3. The theory of humours applied to food in the Middle Ages: from
the Graeco-Roman tradition to mediaeval Latin Europe (María Teresa
Santamaría Hernández) / 4. Biblical feasts in the thirteenth century:
miniatures in the Bibles historiales (Elisa Borsari) / 5. A caution against
excess: Gula in John Gower's works (Antonio Cortijo Ocaña) / 6. Eating with
the lords of Portugal: continuities and discontinuities from the thirteenth
to the sixteenth centuries (Margarida Esperança Pina) / 7. Imagining the
meal of a crusader: food, feasting and fasting in Baudouin de Sebourc
(Claude Roussel) / 8. Don Juan Manuel and food: eating and didacticism.
Mirrors of princes, regiments of health and treatises on the virtues and
vices in the world view of a fourteenth-century Castilian aristocrat
(Barry Taylor) / 9. Food, political elites and cultural invective in the
poetry of the Cancioneros (Andrea Zinato) / 10. Religious context and
eating in late Middle Ages castile: aubergines as a conflict between Jews,
Muslims, and Christians (Hélène Jawhara Piñer) / 11. Food in popular
culture: wording, practice and symbolic aspects in Castilian proverb
collections (Alexandra Oddo) / 12. The land of Cockaigne in European
literatures (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) (Filippo Ribani)