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The Inquisitor and the Jewish Mother: The Role of Food in Creation of Converso Identity in Inquisition Spain

June 12, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Peppered with a great deal of wit and humor, Don Quixote is a unique portrait of the cultural, social and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Conversion, Converso, Don Quixote, Inquisition, Jewish, Jewish Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medieval Food, Politics, Spain

The Peasant Diet: Image and Reality

April 26, 2011 By Medievalists.net

There is no single image of the peasant as food consumer just as there is no single ‘reality’ of peasant standards of living in the Middle Ages. The peasants’ obsession with food in literature coincides with an equally popular upper-class assumption that what is actually eaten by the peasants is unpleasant to persons of breeding.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Black Death, Daily Life, Don Quixote, Economics - Rural, Fourteenth Century, Gower, Late Middle Ages, Literature, Medieval Food, Social History, Spain

Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc

January 23, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc Mira, Joan Francesc Paper given at Readings in Catalan fiction Conference (2006) Abstract The discussion of two classics of European literature such as Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc in the presence of an American public perhaps entails some sort of introduction to the stories of medieval […]