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from: Hambledon & London
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.10940902
EAN: 9781852851484
ISBN: 1852851481
Label: Hambledon & London
Manufacturer: Hambledon & London
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Sales Rank: 1470176
Studio: Hambledon & London
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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.
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Rating: - fascinating views of food and customs of the Middle Ages
Professors Carlin and Rosenthal are to be commended for their wide-ranging exploration of a subject we too often take for granted - getting food to the table and eating it. From the fascinating "Fast Food and Urban Living Standards in Medieval England" to the the grisly "Cannibalism as an Aspect of Famine in Two English Chronicles", this is a scholarly look at how another culture approached meals and eating. I could not put this book down. I found myself needing to know "Did the Peasants Really ... Read More
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