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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium

Kallirroe Linardou, Leslie Brubaker
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      This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how others - including, surprisingly, the Chinese - viewed it. Some consider the protocols of eating in a monastery, of dining in the palace, or of roughing it on a picnic or military campaign; others examine what serving dishes and utensils were in use in the dining room and how this changed over time. Throughout, the terminology of eating - and especially some of the more problematic terms - is explored. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held at the University of Birmingham under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, a fitting tribute for the man who first told the world about Byzantine agricultural implements.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kallirroe Linardou, Leslie Brubaker EAN: 9780754661191 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 589 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-28 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Economic history, History and Archaeology, Ancient history, Social and cultural history

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      Leslie Brubaker is Professor of Byzantine Art History and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, and Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK. Kallirroe Linardou is Lecturer in Byzantine Art at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
      This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how others - including, surprisingly, the Chinese - viewed it. Some consider the protocols of eating in a monastery, of dining in the palace, or of roughing it on a picnic or military campaign; others examine what serving dishes and utensils were in use in the dining room and how this changed over time. Throughout, the terminology of eating - and especially some of the more problematic terms - is explored. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held at the University of Birmingham under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, a fitting tribute for the man who first told the world about Byzantine agricultural implements.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kallirroe Linardou, Leslie Brubaker EAN: 9780754661191 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 589 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-28 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Economic history, History and Archaeology, Ancient history, Social and cultural history

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      Leslie Brubaker is Professor of Byzantine Art History and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, and Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK. Kallirroe Linardou is Lecturer in Byzantine Art at the University of Ioannina, Greece.

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