Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History

262 Pages·2014·3.36 MB·English

by  Nicolas Trépanier

Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
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( by Nicolas TrépaNier )
Foodways and Daily Life
in Medieval Anatolia
a New social HisT ory
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 Foodways and daily life in medieval Anatolia : a new social history /
 by Nicolas Trépanier.
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Acknowledgments—A Note on Transliteration—List of Abbreviations—
Introduction—Chapter 1. Food Production—Chapter 2. Food Exchanges—
Chapter 3. Food Consumption—Chapter 4. Food and Religion—
Conclusion—Appendix: Sources—Notes—Bibliography—Index.
 gT2853.T9 T74 2015
 394.1′209561—dc23
2014012689
doi:10.7560/759299
To R.Y.,
who shows me where to look
among the garbage and the flowers
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Transliteration xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
cHapTer oNe . Food Production 21
cHapTer T wo. Food Exchanges 45
cHapTer THree . Food Consumption 65
cHapTer four. Food and Religion 105
Conclusion 121
Appendix: Sources 131
Notes 147
Bibliography 221
Index 235
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Acknowledgments
Iborrowed a lot of time and energy from many people over the ten
years or so it took to bring this book into existence. As research
turned into writing and then into revision, I kept borrowing from
new people for new reasons, and I now find myself completely unable to pay
back the accumulated debt. Let’s be honest: I did not borrow the time and
energy of so many friends and colleagues; I stole it.
Still, inability to repay debt does not prevent me from acknowledging
it and from expressing gratitude to my victims. I should first mention my
mentors, Cemal Kafadar, Amy Singer, and Scott Redford, who helped shape
this research project from structure to fine grain. Each one has left a lasting
imprint on my mind, using a different set of superpowers. Cemal Kafadar
always listened to my ideas (some of them rather unorthodox) with an open
mind, and on those occasions when he expressed his disagreement or sug-
gested alternative ways of thinking, he probably saved me from myself. My
education as a historian greatly benefited from Amy Singer’s sharp mind,
“natural- born mentor” character, and superhuman ability to focus on the
big picture and the tiniest detail all at once. Scott Redford took me in as an
archaeological orphan a number of years ago and ran me through the basics
of a foreign discipline despite having no obligation whatsoever to do so. I
owe each of them a debt of gratitude that is even deeper than the respect and
admiration I have for them as scholars.
The methodology presented in this book requires a healthy degree of
linguistic self- confidence. I had the immense privilege (and pleasure and,
on occasion, pain) of learning Persian from Wheeler M. Thackston. If I were
asked to list the best teachers I encountered through a quarter century as a
student, Professor Thackston’s name might be the very first to pop into my
mind; if I were asked to list the least demanding, it would not. I was also