A Medieval Feast

A Medieval Feast
Author:
Publisher: Reading Rainbow Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1986-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

The king is coming to visit! The lord and lady of Camdenton Manor must work quickly to prepare fo his arrival. It will take weeks to ready rooms, set up tents, and prepare the feast itself. Everyone is busy hunting and hawking, brewing and churning. This will be a feast to remember!

Food in the Middle Ages

Food in the Middle Ages
Author: Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1995
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780815313458

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Food & Feast in Medieval England

Food & Feast in Medieval England
Author: P. W. Hammond
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780750937733

Based on archaeological and written evidence, this book deals with everything we know about medieval food, from hunting and harvesting to food hygiene and the organization of a large household kitchen. Peter Hammond evaluates the nutritional value of medieval food, the customs associated with its serving and eating, and the organisation of feasts, supported by innumerable facts and figures and examples from sources. The book is now available in a smaller paperback edition with black and white illustrations.

Holy Feast and Holy Fast

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1988-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520908783

In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

A Feast for the Eyes

A Feast for the Eyes
Author: Christina Normore
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022624220X

"A Feast for the Eyes is the first book-length study of the court banquets of northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries"--Jacket.

Food and Feasts in the Middle Ages

Food and Feasts in the Middle Ages
Author: Lynne Elliott
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778713487

Provides an overview of food, hunting, and cooking in the Middle Ages.

Fabulous Feasts

Fabulous Feasts
Author: Madeleine Pelner Cosman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1976
Genre:
ISBN:

Food in Medieval Times

Food in Medieval Times
Author: Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Cookbooks
ISBN: 9780313361760

New light is shed on everyday life in the middle ages in Great Britain and continental Europe through this unique survey of its food culture. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information is provided, such as on imitation food, kitchen humor, and medical ideas. Many period recipes and quotations flesh out the narrative.

Fast and Feast

Fast and Feast
Author: Bridget Ann Henisch
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1976
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780271004242

Illustrations reproduced from early manuscripts supplement a study of attitudes toward food and ideas about the preparation and presentation of meals in the Middle Ages