Consuming Passions Dining from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

by Carroll, Maureen; Hadley, Dawn; Willmott, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780752434452
• ISBN10: 0752434454
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

This multidisciplinary book explores the social practice of dining over 2000 years, examining the archaeological, documentary, material culture, and art historical evidence for the consumption of food and drink in various historical, social, and cultural contexts. The authors look at the locations for dining and the concomitant decoration, furniture, and tableware. They explore the norms for appropriate and inappropriate behavior and the rituals of dining, such as food preparation and presentation, the serving of food, and its means of consumption.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	7	(4)
Introduction: setting the table	11	(12)
Maureen Carroll
D.M. Hadley
Hugh Willmott
DINING IN THE ROMAN WORLD
Portraying opulence at the table in Roman Gaul and Germany	23	(16)
Maureen Carroll
Cooking like a native, dining like a Roman: food preparation and consumption in Roman Switzerland	39	(10)
Caty Schucany
Dining al fresco with the living and the dead in Roman Italy	49	(18)
Emma-Jayne Graham
DINING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Hanseatic table culture in northern Europe 1200--1600: the archaeology of cultural transfer and resistance	67	(20)
David Gaimster
Pottery and manners	87	(14)
Duncan Brown
Dining in disharmony in the later Middle Ages	101	(20)
D.M. Hadley
DINING IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Tudor dining: object and image at the table	121	(22)
Hugh Willmott
Lunch at the Topkapi Palace: the archaeology of the table during Ottoman times	143	(20)
Joanita Vroom
Eating al fresco: the use of garden buildings for dining in the eighteenth-century English pleasure ground	163	(20)
Kate Felus
Index	183