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Forging Communities: Food and Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Southwestern Europe

English · Hardback

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Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind's technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing of food customs. The very act of eating and the pleasure derived from it are metaphorically linked to two other sublime activities of the human experience: sexuality and the search for the divine.

This interdisciplinary study of food in medieval and early modern communities connects threads of history conventionally examined separately or in isolation. The intersection of foodstuffs with politics, religion, economics, and culture enhances our understanding of historical developments and cultural continuities through the centuries, giving insight that today, as much as in the past, we are what we eat and what we eat is never devoid of meaning.

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Montserrat Piera is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University and editor of Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700: To the East and Back Again.

Product details

Authors Montserrat Piera
Publisher The University of Arkansas Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.09.2018
 
EAN 9781682260678
ISBN 978-1-68226-067-8
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 157 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
Weight 658 g
Series Food and Foodways
Subjects Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables
Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

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