Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays

276 Pages·2012·8.253 MB·English

by  Melitta Weiss Adamson (ed.)

Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe
ROUTLEDGE MEDIEVAL CASEBOOKS
Series Editors
CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ AND MARCIA COLISH,
THE CHESTER MYSTERY CYCLE MEDIEVAL LITURGY
A Casebook A Book if Essays
edited by Kevin J. Harty edited by Lizette Larson-Miller
MEDIEVAL NUMEROLOGY MEDIEVAL PURITY AND PIETY
A Book if Essays Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy
edited by Robert L. Surles and Religious Reform
edited by Michael Frassetto
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES OF MEDIEVAL
MEDICINE HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
A Book if Essays A Book of Essays
edited by Margaret R. Schleissner edited by Maud Burnett Mcinerney
SAINT AUGUSTINE THE BISHOP JULIAN OF NORWICH
A Book if Essays A Book of Essays
edited by Fannie LeMoine and edited by Sandra J. McEntire
Christopher Kleinhenz
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN PERCEPTIONS The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and
OF ISLAM Literature
A Book if Essays edited by Debra Hassig
edited by John Victor Tolan
THE BOOK AND THE MAGIC OF
SOVEREIGN LADY READING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Essays on VVcJmen in Middle English edited by Albert Classen
Literature
edited by Muriel Whitaker CONFLICTED IDENTITIES AND MULTIPLE
MASCULINITIES
FOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES Men in the Medieval U-ist
A Book if Essays edited by Jacqueline Murray
edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson
IMAGINING HEAVEN IN THE
ANIMALS IN THE MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE AGES
A Book if Essays A Book of Essays
edited by Nona C. Flores edited by Jan Swango Emerson and
Hugh Feiss, o.S.B.
SANCTITY AND MOTHERHOOD
Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages ANNA KOMNENE AND HER TIMES
edited by Annecke B. Mulder-Bakker edited by Thalia Gouma-Peterson
MEDIEVAL FAMILY ROLES WILLIAM LANGLAND'S PIERS PLOWMAN
A Book if Essays A Book if Essays
edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre edited by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
THE MABINOGI THE POETIC EDDA
A Book if Essays Essays on Old Norse Mythology
edited by C.W Sullivan III edited by Paul Acker and
Carolyne Larrington
THE PILGRIMMAGE TO COMPOSTELA
IN THE MIDDLE AGES REGIONAL CUISINES OF MEDIEVAL
A Book of Essays EUROPE
edited by Maryj ane Dunn and A Book if Essays
Linda Kay Davidson edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson
Regional Cuisines of Medieval
Europe
A Book of Essays
edited by
Melitta Weiss Adamson
Routledge
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
Chapter 1
The Greco-Roman World
Melitta Weiss Adamson
1
Chapter 2
Medieval Britain
Constance B. Hieatt
19
Chapter 3
Medieval France
A. THE NORTH
Terence Scully
47
B. THE SOUTH
Carole Lambert
67
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Chapter 4
Medieval and Renaissance Italy
A. THE PENINSULA
Simon Varey
85
B. SICILY
Habeeb Salloum
113
Chapter 5
Medieval Spain
Rafael Chabran
125
Chapter 6
Medieval Germany
Melitta Weiss Adamson
153
Chapter 7
The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Johanna Maria van Winter
197
Bibliography
215
Contributors
235
Index
239
Acknowledgments
I
wish to thank the contributors to this volume without whom the project
could not have been realized. My thanks also go to Waxmann Verlag
GmbH. for permission to reprint in English translation Johanna Maria
van Winter's article "Nahrungsmittel in den Niederlanden im 15. und 16.
Jahrhundert," which previously appeared in Nahrung und Tischkultur im
Hanseraum, edited by GUnter Wiegelmann and Ruth-E. Mohrmann (MUnster
and New York: Waxmann, 1996), 303-18; see Chapter 7, "The Low Countries
in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." Routledge Publishing I wish to
thank for its enthusiastic support of the book. And finally, my thanks go to
my husband, Alan Adamson, for his computer expertise and general advice
in cultural and linguistic matters.
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