Food & Eating In Medieval Europe

by Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T.

• ISBN13: 9781852851484
• ISBN10: 1852851481
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Eating and drinking are essential to life and therefore of great interest to the historian. As well as having a real fascination in their own right, both activities are an integral part of the both social and economic history. Yet food and drink, especially in the middle ages, have received less than their proper share of attention. The essays in this volume approach their subject from a variety of angles: from the reality of starvation and the reliance on 'fast food' of those without cooking facilities, to the consumption of an English lady's household and the career of a cook in the French royal household.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix	(4)
Abbreviations	xiii
1 The Feast Hall in Anglo-Saxon Society	1	(14)
Marjorie A. Brown
2 Pilgrims to Table: Food Consumption in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales	15	(12)
Elizabeth M. Biebel
3 Fast Food and Urban Living Standards in Medieval England	27	(26)
Martha Carlin
4 Did the Peasants Really Starve in Medieval England?	53	(20)
Christopher Dyer
5 Cannibalism as an Aspect of Famine in Two English Chronicles	73	(14)
Julia Marvin
6 Driven by Drink? Ale Consumption and the Agrarian Economy of the London Region, c. 1300-1400	87	(14)
James A. Galloway
7 Making Sense of Medieval Culinary Records: Much Done, But Much More to Do	101	(16)
Constance B. Hieatt
8 Feeding Medieval Cities: Some Historical Approaches	117	(16)
Margaret Murphy
9 The Household of Alice de Bryene, 1412-13	133	(12)
ffiona Swabey
10 Queu du Roi, Roi des Queux: Taillevent and the Profession of Medieval Cooking	145	(14)
Alan S. Weber
11 Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Banquets and Other Feasts	159	(16)
Susan F. Weiss
Index	175