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Massimo Montanari is Professor of Medieval History and Food History at the University of Bologna, Italy. His many studies on the history of food culture have been widely translated.
[T]he six volumes of A Cultural History of Food provide an enlightening and fascinating insight into the history of food and its development throughout history in an authoritative and accessible style.
- Louise Ellis-Barrett, Social Sciences
Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to symbol, became ever more complex and integral to Europe’s culture and economy. The period saw the growth of culinary literature, the introduction of new spices and cuisines as a result of trade and war, the impact of the Black Death on food resources, the widening gap between what was eaten by the rich and what by the poor, as well as the influence of religion on food rituals.
A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.
Series Preface
Introduction
Massimo Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy
1 Food Production
Alfio Cortonesi, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
2 Food Systems
Pere Benit, Univeristy of Lleida, Spain
3 Food Security
Giuliano Pinto, University of Florence, Italy
4 Food and Politics
Jean-Pierre Devroey, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
5 Eating Out in the Early and High Middle Ages
Alban Gautier, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
6 Professional Cooking, Kitchens, and Service Work
Melitta Weiss Adamson, University of Western Ontario, Canada
7 Family and Domesticity
Gabriella Piccinni, University of Siena, Italy
8 Body and Soul
Allen J. Grieco, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, Italy
9 Food Representations
Bruno Andreolli, University of Bologna, Italy
10 World Developments
Fabio Parasecoli, The New School, NYC, USA
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
“A comprehensive treatise that belongs in every academic library concerned with a form of literature that has had broad appeal for centuries and continues to do so.”
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A Cultural History of Hair
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.”
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A Cultural History of Law
“These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods.”
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A Cultural History of Peace
“The set is a good introduction to the study of peace and encourages looking at world history in a new way.”
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A Cultural History of Theatre
“All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal.”
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A Cultural History of Tragedy
“A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality.”
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A Cultural History of Western Empires
“Students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here.”
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A Cultural History of Work
“[Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.”
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Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Massimo Montanari is Professor of Medieval History and Food History at the University of Bologna, Italy. His many studies on the history of food culture have been widely translated.