by Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick From the publisher: When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking […]
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Demand for spices in Middle Ages drove globalization
“The quest for spice was one of the earliest drivers of globalization. Long before the voyages of European explorers, spices were globally traded products. Desire for spices helped fuel European […]
Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
by Paul Freedman From the publisher: The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of […]
Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500
by C. M. Woolgar From the publisher: In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally […]
Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition
edited by C.M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson, and T. Waldron From the publisher: Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the […]