A feast for the eyes : art, performance, and the late medieval banquet / Christina Normore.
- Normore, Christina
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Physical description
viii, 261 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Introduction: setting the table -- Between the dishes -- Spectator-spectacle -- Efficacy and hypocrisy -- Dining well -- Stranger at the table -- Wedding reception.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Fasts and feastsEuropeHistory14th century
- Fasts and feastsEuropeHistory15th century
- Dinners and diningEuropeHistory14th century
- Dinners and diningEuropeHistory15th century
- EntremésHistory14th century
- EntremésHistory15th century
- Fasts and feasts in art
- Dinners and dining in art
- Feeding Behaviorhistory
- Arthistory
- Literature, Medieval
- Poetry as Topichistory
- Cookbooks as Topichistory
- EuropeCourt and courtiersSocial life and customs14th century
- EuropeCourt and courtiersSocial life and customs15th century
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDFXP.AA3-4Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780226242200
- 022624220X