At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (ARIZONA STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE) by Timothy J. Tomasik, Juliann Vitullo (Editor) - 2007-01-30

Brepols Publishers, 2007. 228 pp., Hardcover, faint age-toning to page edges else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Brepols Publishers, 2007. 1st. hardcover. New. 104x12x153.

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Turnhout Brepols 2007. Hardback, XX+228 p., 1 b/w ill., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9782503523989. This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought. New.

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