IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 613: Perspectives on Medieval Diet, II: Culinary Cultures in Late Medieval England
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Diet Group |
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| Organiser: | Chris Woolgar, Department of History / Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Woolgar, Department of History / Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton |
| Paper 613-a | The Medieval Table as a Noble Space: Diet and Feasting in 12th-Century Table Manner Poems (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 613-b | Did Peasants Emulate the Gentry in Their Food Culture? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 613-c | Culinary Culture and the Small Town Enigma (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | A key question in understanding culinary culture is how styles of cooking and eating were transmitted through society. Patterns of behaviour that accompanied food consumption, from fashions of service to manners, were also indicative of styles of living and social emulation. This session addresses the theme across three case studies: the medieval table as a noble space, the ways in which the consumption of food by the peasantry was affected by the practices of the elite, and whether we can see distinctive food cultures in town and country. |