Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Guillermo Alvar NuñoPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781032331195ISBN 10: 1032331194 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 01 December 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction / Framing the importance of banquets in the late Middle Ages (Guillermo Alvar Nuño) / 1. How should I eat before a king? Feasts as public display of moral manners (Guillermo Alvar Nuño) / 2. Rhetorics as a social virtue: holding conversations when eating in public (María Díez Yáñez) / 3. The theory of humours applied to food in the Middle Ages: from the Graeco-Roman tradition to mediaeval Latin Europe (María Teresa Santamaría Hernández) / 4. Biblical feasts in the thirteenth century: miniatures in the Bibles historiales (Elisa Borsari) / 5. A caution against excess: Gula in John Gower’s works (Antonio Cortijo Ocaña) / 6. Eating with the lords of Portugal: continuities and discontinuities from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries (Margarida Esperança Pina) / 7. Imagining the meal of a crusader: food, feasting and fasting in Baudouin de Sebourc (Claude Roussel) / 8. Don Juan Manuel and food: eating and didacticism. Mirrors of princes, regiments of health and treatises on the virtues and vices in the world view of a fourteenth-century Castilian aristocrat (Barry Taylor) / 9. Food, political elites and cultural invective in the poetry of the Cancioneros (Andrea Zinato) / 10. Religious context and eating in late Middle Ages castile: aubergines as a conflict between Jews, Muslims, and Christians (Hélène Jawhara Piñer) / 11. Food in popular culture: wording, practice and symbolic aspects in Castilian proverb collections (Alexandra Oddo) / 12. The land of Cockaigne in European literatures (thirteenth–fourteenth centuries) (Filippo Ribani)ReviewsAuthor InformationGuillermo Alvar Nuño obtained his PhD in Latin Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He developed his teaching career at the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon, France, 2014–2017) and the University of Alcalá (2017–), where he currently teaches subjects related to the ancient and medieval worlds. As a researcher, he has worked with late antique and medieval pedagogical texts on the moral formation of ancient and medieval man. He has also researched the development of the courtly model in medieval Europe, the influence of classical authors in the Middle Ages and the development of Spanish humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
