Paulina Lewicka

Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes

Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The present volume is a corpus-based study that aims to profile the food culture of medieval Cairo, and an attempt by the author to reconstruct the menu of Cairenes as well as their various daily practices, customs and habits in relation to food and eating in a broader social, political and economic context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 169mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1172g
• ISBN-13: 9789004194724
• ISBN-10: 900419472X
• Artikelnr.: 34796906

Autorenporträt

Paulina B. Lewicka, PhD (2000) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Warsaw, is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on various aspects of the cultural and social history of the medieval Middle East and, more particularly, the Mamluk and the early Ottoman period, such as interfaith and gender relations, foodways and the medical cultures of Egypt and Syria, including self-treatment manuals in the Arabic language as sources for the study of the social and cultural contexts of the art of medicine in premodern Egypt.