The Inquisitor and the Jewish Mother: The Role of Food in Creation of Converso Identity in Inquisition Spain
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.
How much meat did medieval people eat?
A recently published article has revealed some interesting new details about meat consumption in the Middle Ages, including how different regions in medieval Western Europe had their own preferences for these foods.
Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome
Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome By John Varriano Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 5:4 (2005)…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different ‘humors’ of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.
Alcohol Consumption by Children in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Alcohol Consumption by Children in Late Medieval and Early Modern England By Virginia L. Allen Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1994 Introduction: Alcohol…
The Peasant Diet: Image and Reality
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.
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260: A Case Study in Legal Development
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260: A Case Study in Legal Development By David M. Freidenreich Medieval Encounters, Vol.…
Dish to cash, cash to ash : the last Roman parasite and the birth of a comic profession
Dish to cash, cash to ash : the last Roman parasite and the birth of a comic profession Vidovic, Goran MA Thesis in Medieval…
Medieval Feast at Durham University
A variety of authentic medieval foods will be served at a sold-out banquet at Durham University on March 9th. Organised by university’s Institute…
What did the Order‘s brothers eat in the Klaipėda castle? (The Historical and zooarchaeological data)
What did the Order‘s brothers eat in the Klaipėda castle? (The Historical and zooarchaeological data) By Vladas Žulkus and Linas Daugnora Archaeologica Baltica,…
The Middle Ages on the block: animals, Guilds and meat in the medieval period
Understanding the place of butchery in the medieval period requires a more in depth appraisal of the place of animals in medieval English culture. Fortunately, this period is perhaps one of the most interesting in terms of the lines of information available for this assessment. The rich historical evidence has led to research detailing the manufacture and uses of tools; the animals acquired and eaten in a number of different social contexts and accounts relating to the organisation of butchery.
Searching For The Authentic: Foodservice At A Medieval Banquet
Searching For The Authentic: Foodservice At A Medieval Banquet By Cate Clifford, Richard Robinson and Charles Arcodia Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary…
Food and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries in Medieval England
In this chapter, both zooarchaeological and historical evidence are used to explore variation in patterns of consumption among different sectors of medieval English society (ca. A.D. 1066-1520).
Medieval Food
Everything you wanted to know about what people in the Middle Ages ate!
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS DEVROEY, JEAN-PIERRE History, Vol.1 (1987) Abstract It…
Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire
Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire Smith, Jr., John Masson Journal of Asian History, vol. 34, no. 1, (2000) Abstract Most…
Norse Drinking Traditions
Unfortunately, while there are many passing references in Old Norse literature and occasional bits of evidence in the archaeological record, there is far from a complete picture of Viking Age brewing, vintning, and drinking customs.
Dietetics in Medieval Islamic Culture
Dietetics in Medieval Islamic Culture Waines, David Medical History, 43 (1999) Abstract The origins of dietetics understood as”the systematic control of food and…
The Wine Trade in Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The Wine Trade in Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries By Catherine R. Pitt MA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006 Abstract: Bristol…
Pre – and protohistoric bread in Sweden : a definition and a review
Pre – and protohistoric bread in Sweden : a definition and a review By Ann-Marie Hansson Civilisations, Vol.49 (2002) Abstract: This article presents…
‘Real Eating:’ A Medieval Spanish Jewish View of Gastronomic Authenticity
‘Real Eating:’ A Medieval Spanish Jewish View of Gastronomic Authenticity Brumberg-Kraus, Jonathan (Wheaton College, Massachusetts) 2005 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery Abstract In…
How Cinggis-qan Has Changed the World
How Cinggis-qan Has Changed the World By Paul D. Buell Published Online (2010) Abstract: The Mongols united more of Eurasia under a single…
The Economics of Medieval English Brewing
I would like to consider Margery Kempe as a typical commercial brewer at the beginning of the fifteenth century and place the hints she gives us into a wider context of how medieval English breweries functioned.
Women and Men in the Brewer’s Gild of London
Women and Men in the Brewer’s Gild of London By Judith M. Bennett The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the…
The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
The medieval peasant diet was plain and basic; most peasant meals consisted only of bread, ale, and soup with some variation provided by seasoned fruits, legumes, and vegetables.