Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays

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Melitta Weiss Adamson
Routledge, Oct 14, 2013 - History - 254 pages
Expert food historians provide detailed histories of the creation and development of particular delicacies in six regions of medieval Europe-Britain, France, Italy, Sicily, Spain, and the Low Countries.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 The GrecoRoman World
1
Chapter 2 Medieval Britain
19
Chapter 3 Medieval France
47
Chapter 4 Medieval and Renaissance Italy
85
Chapter 5 Medieval Spain
125
Chapter 6 Medieval Germany
153
Chapter 7 The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
197
Bibliography
215
Contributors
235
Index
239
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Melitta Weiss Adamson, PhD., is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. She attended the University of Vienna and received her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the UNiversity of Toronto. Adamson is widely recognized as the leading authority on medieval cuisine and cookery.

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