Allen J. Frantzen

Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781843839088
• ISBN-10: 1843839083
• Artikelnr.: 39565541

Autorenporträt

Allen J. Frantzen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The symbolic world of food Food knowledge: texts
feasts
and objects Food words and Old English genres The quernstone Pots for cooking and storage Food objects in iron Food objects in wood Food officers in Handbooks of penance Laws
food
and settlement change Fasting and the Anglo-Saxon "fish-event horizon" Conclusion: Food
Eating and Identity: Anglo-Saxons at the table Works Cited