Medieval Food
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VERSION COMPLETE SUR OPENEDITION ET HALSHS The archaeological and historical study of the supply of medieval castles in the north of Aquitaine allows us to put into perspective the food dominance, marked by a privileged consumption of... more
Hikayat Abi l-Qasim al-Baghdadi (The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi) is an 11th-century Arabic work by Abu l-Mutahhar Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Azdi which tells the story of a Baghdadi party-crasher crashing a party in Isfahan. It is... more
Summary Rafał Kubicki, Around the monastery refectory - regulations and practices based on the example of mendicants from the territory of the State of Teutonic Order in Prussia. The issue of feeding monks appears in numerous works... more
The forbidden feast Regulating the social power of commensality – a diachronic approach (14-15 November 2016, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) This workshop is concerned with the social capital of commensal events; happenings where people... more
In medieval Europe – unlike what happens nowadays – banqueting was a fundamental practice for the ratification of marriage. Actually, banquets were socially required rituals of passage. The most important condition a wedding feast should... more
Chapter 7 as a teaser: "Food of Recent Greece" "Foods and nations" is a new series from Reaktion that explores the history-and geography-of food. Books in the series reveal the hidden history behind the food eaten today in different... more
Quando estamos na taberna Bebem todos sem lei. (Amatoria Potatoria. Lusori 177-fol. 88b) Resumo: A taberna medieval foi apresentada na literatura-nas canções e poemas dos goliardos, nas Canções de Gesta e, também nos Fabliaux-como um... more
This paper is a revised version of the original still here on the site, which has some corrections and new recipes.
861 p. Copyright M D Ito, 2007-2014. All rights reserved. Library of Congress, US Copyright Office Certificate of Registration Number TX-6-766-999, April 2014. This work examines the late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century grain... more
This thesis unravels the deeper meanings attributed to ordinary objects, such as clothing and food, in thirteenth-century Icelandic literature and legal records. I argue that women weaponized these ordinary objects to circumvent their... more
Rapport sur la soutenance de la thèse d'histoire et d'archéologie du Moyen Âge de M. Charles VIAUT, « À la table des princes… et des autres. Consommation et pratiques alimentaires sur les sites castraux et élitaires du nord de l'Aquitaine... more
The article examines the evidence on food and nutrition found in the Slavic penitentials. Unlike the law texts in the Western historical tradition, the Slavic mediaeval law texts are poorly researched and used as a source of information... more
Hunting and eating hunt in Medieval Aragón: local charters, regulations, cynegetic practices and beliefs ABSTRACT: The nutritional, economic and political importance of hunting in medieval Aragón is revealed in the Aragonese laws and... more
In paleopathology, since the mid-1960s, caries and its characteristics have been studied on medieval teeth by many different teams in Europe, particularly in relation to the dietary and cultural habits of the populations concerned. The... more
The topos of spiritual joy and intoxication has its roots in a long tradition of mystical discourse on sweetness, as seen in Richard Rolle’s emphasis on dulcor as central for spiritual amelioration. The myriad references to God’s... more
Studio di una cucina e dispensa in una rocca medievale pugliese
Resumo: Desde a Pré-Historia, tanto os alimentos quanto as bebidas tiveram uma profunda ligação com os rituais religiosos. Utilizadas como uma ponte para se alcançar outros mundos, para invocar os espíritos dos mortos, para comemorar e... more
The main objective of this paper is to analyze late medieval elite's diet on the basis of the list of expenses of the Zagreb bishop Osvald Thuz from 1481 and 1482. Besides the payments to craftsman, soldiers and other servitors, on the... more
Cari amici, cari colleghi, sono lieto di invitarvi alla presentazione del volume “Il Cibo e il Sacro. Tradizioni e Simbologie” che si terrà sabato 19 giugno, presso il parco monumentale del palazzo Sforza-Cesarini di Genzano di Roma,... more
This is the original version of an article now republished in "Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Europe" (2019), a volume of my collected articles.
Cet article tente de saisir l’alimentation ordinaire, c'est-à-dire du plus grand nombre, à travers les sources écrites. Le dépouillement d’archives de types variés (actes notariés, cartulaires, règlements, comptes, registres de justice,... more
Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, Berlin, 2015. Copyright M. D. Ito, 2007-2015. All Rights Reserved.
This paper investigates the relationships between climatic variations and hunger in the medieval (c. AD 1100‒1500) Novgorod and Ladoga (Russia).
An overlook about food, agricolture, ingredients and food habits in Ferrara, between Middle Ages and Renaissance. The difference between the appearance of the official banquets and the everyday food will be underlined by comparing... more
Il presente studio nasce dell’analisi dei reperti faunistici provenienti da tre focolari medievali del Foro della Pace, datati all’XI secolo dai materiali ceramici rinvenuti. Sebbene il campione di pesce sia relativamente ridotto, la... more
Dos áreas de montaña delimitan Aragón como región natural e histórica: el Pirineo y el Sistema Ibérico. La posición geográfica de ambos conjuntos montañosos determina las características físicas de clima, relieve, fauna y vegetación del... more
Resumo: o poema éddico Rígsþula nos apresenta alguns elementos fundamentais acerca das práticas alimentares vikings, das mais simples às mais complexas, bem como determinadas formas de processamento, preparo e consumo dos alimentos bem... more
Acorns have enjoyed much success in the past and the present, from America to the Far East. Their history on the tables of Europeans, however, seems to have been characterized by many lows and very few highs. Traditionally associated by... more
Annual meeting of Food Studies organised by the IEHCA in Tours and open to all those who work in the field of Food Studies (History, Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology, etc.). The 2019 edition will take place June 6 and 7.
La section contient 5 chapites: [1 chapitre sur l'Antiquité tardive, écrit avec Christophe Badel] «Tables romaines, barbares et chrétiennes : l'Antiquité tardive, IIIe-VIIe siècle»; [1 chapitre sur Byzance] «De la table des moines à la... more