Forging communities : food and representation in medieval and early modern southwestern Europe

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas, 2018 and ©2018
Subject:: Food habits - Iberian Peninsula - History - To 1500
Gastronomy - Iberian Peninsula - History - To 1500
Cooking, Medieval
Food in literature
Literature, Medieval
Contributor:: Piera, Montserrat, editor
ISBN:: 9781682260678, 1682260674, 9781682260685, and 1682260682
Series:: Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Description:: xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Connections and Transitions in Muslim, Hebrew, and Christian Communities. From Kitāb al-tabīj to the Llibre de Sent Soví: Continuities and Shifts in the Earliest Iberian Cooking Manuals / Carolyn A. Nadeau -- Food and Death: Foodways and Communities in the Danza general de la muerte / Michelle M. Hamilton and María Morrás -- "Los que comedes mi pan": Food References in the Romancero / Hilary Pomeroy -- Magical Morsels: Food in Morisco Aljamiado Incantations / Veronica Menaldi. Food Choices: Ideals and Practices in Monastic and Lay Communities. Notions of Nutrition and the Properties of Food in the Middle Ages / Donna M. Rogers -- Alleviating Hunger without Pleasing the Palate: The Dietetic Proposal of the Cistercian Order in the First Half of the Twelfth Century / Antoni Riera i Melis -- Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Flavors in Benedictine Cuisine in Catalonia at the End of the Middle Ages / Ramón A. Banegas López -- Breaking Nonnatural Bread: Alimentary Hygiene and Radical Individualism in Juan de Aviñon's Medicina sevillana / Michael Solomon -- Eating for Success: Where, When, and What to Eat in Early Modern Spain / Patricia Moore-Martínez. Food as Fetish: Gendering Sexual Desire through Food. "A Whim for Strawberries": At the Literary Table in Les quinze joies de mariage / Nelly Labère -- Have a Heart!: Love, Lust, and the Properties of Heart Consumption from Guillem de Cabestany to Curial e Güelfa / Montserrat Piera -- Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Iberian Texts / Amy I. Aronson -- Gendering Fasting: The Medieval Battles of Flesh and Lent / Ana Pairet
Summary:: "Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind's technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing of food customs. The very act of eating and the pleasure derived from it are metaphorically linked to two other sublime activities of the human experience: sexuality and the search for the divine.This interdisciplinary study of food in medieval and early modern communities connects threads of history conventionally examined separately or in isolation. The intersection of foodstuffs with politics, religion, economics, and culture enhances our understanding of historical developments and cultural continuities through the centuries, giving insight that today, as much as in the past, we are what we eat and what we eat is never devoid of meaning."--Amazon.com
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: GT2853.I16 F67 2018
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