At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Couverture rigide

 
9782503523989: At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 2503523986 ISBN 13 : 9782503523989
Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2007

Synopsis

This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought.

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Éditeur
Brepols N.V.
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2503523986
ISBN 13 
9782503523989
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
245
Éditeur
Tomasik Timothy J, Vitullo Juliann M
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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