Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
Bonnie Effros
"Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul" exposes the manner in which feasting and fasting, in other words, ritualized actions not performed solely for the purpose of nourishment, were central to social interaction in Gaul both prior and subsequent to Christianization of the mixed population of Franks and Gallo-Romans. In exploring these issues using a multidisciplinary methodology, Effros suggests that scholars may assess historical manifestations of the use of food and drink to create and reinforce the social hierarchy. Effros addresses the tensions between monastic and lay communities and focuses on patronage through food and drink as a source of informal power, a subject too often overlooked in favour of institutional structures more familiar to twentieth-century historians.
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Year:
2002
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1349625779
ISBN 13:
9781349625772
Series:
The New Middle Ages
File:
PDF, 11.55 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002
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