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Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
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A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and
consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines
of everyday life. Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of
feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most
evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things
such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely
mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and
its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together
archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and
implements associated with food contributed to social identity at
all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks
which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to
trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place
offish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social
complexity. Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English at Loyola
University Chicago.
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