IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1330: Interpreting the Medieval Meal: Medicine, Ingredients, and Allegory
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Durham University |
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| Organiser: | Giles E. M. Gasper, Department of History, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, Department of History, Durham University |
| Paper 1330-a | Composing the Medieval Meal: Tracing Recipe Ingredients from the 12th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
| Paper 1330-b | Allegorising the Medieval Meal: Robert Grosseteste and Food (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Interpreting the medieval meal takes three different perspectives on medieval food culture from the 12th century to the 15th century. The three papers will examine the processes and pathways of a medicalisation of food; tracing changes in the ways in which particular dishes were composed over the high and later medieval period; and the allegorical meaning to which the meal especially, and hospitality in general, were put in the writings of Robert Grosseteste. |