IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 622: The Rich Man's Feast and the Poor Man's Fare: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Nutritional Health in the Middle Ages, II - Cooking Food for the Modern Public
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Wellcome Trust / Medica: Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Vicky Shearman, Clarke Hall Educational Museum, Wakefield |
| Paper 622-a | Medieval Food and Cookery from the Practical Standpoint of 'Living History Displays' and 'Real Meals for Real People' (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 622-b | Engaging the Public in Healthy Eating through Bioarchaeology (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Medicine |
| Paper 622-c | Experiments, Education, and Entertainment: The Opportunities and Problems with Historical Cookery Demonstrations at Historic Sites (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 622-d | Was Medieval Food Healthy?: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History |
| Abstract | This session is inspired by the experience of running the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'You Are What You Ate'. Working with museums officers, archaeologists, and historical re-enactors, we are encouraging the public to reflect on their modern diet through discussion of historical food. These four papers consider some of the issues and methods involved in doing historical re-enactment and public engagement. Questions to be explored include the paradox of 'healthy' peasant food, cooking methods, researching household diets, the role of experimental research and the relationship between entertainment and education. |