A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages
Autor Dr Andrew Jotischkyen Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826423931
ISBN-10: 0826423930
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 6 illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0826423930
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 6 illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A unique and quirky look at medieval hermits and their diet.
Notă biografică
Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Lancaster University, UK. He has published widely on aspects of medieval religious history; his principal publications include Crusading and the Crusader States (2004), and The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands, with Caroline Hull (2009).
Cuprins
Preface 1. Beginnings - Who were the First Monks? 2. Desert fathers, Pillar-saints and Fasting 3. The 'Hermit Craze' of the Middle Ages 4. Herbs and Health 5. From Field to Table - the Medieval Monastic Experience 6. Medieval Diets - the Food Landscape Conclusion Further Reading
Recenzii
This is a sparkling book, hugely informative about monasticism in general and hermits in particular with the addition of some surprisingly appetising recipes. Mortification and nettles turn out to be only one part of the story of how hermits battled with the devil; hospitality and humility were equally important as was a good knowledge of bread-making and a sound digestion. Tree bark is probably not to everyone's taste.
By supplementing his material from monastic sources with contemporary secular ones, and by discussing the virtues and culinary properties of plants still used today, the author opens up a world of monastic cuisine to explore and enjoy.
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'What underlies this entertaining, informative account of monastic diet is the unexplored issue of food consumption as a means exercising individual and social control... this is a book that does more than it says on the tin.'
Andrew Jotischky's book is a valuable addition to the literature on the monastic life and deserves more than a specialist readership. And it has many appetising monastic recipes.
Reviewed in The Church Times
By supplementing his material from monastic sources with contemporary secular ones, and by discussing the virtues and culinary properties of plants still used today, the author opens up a world of monastic cuisine to explore and enjoy.
Extract Featured
Extract featured in the Platelicker section
Full page extract featured
'What underlies this entertaining, informative account of monastic diet is the unexplored issue of food consumption as a means exercising individual and social control... this is a book that does more than it says on the tin.'
Andrew Jotischky's book is a valuable addition to the literature on the monastic life and deserves more than a specialist readership. And it has many appetising monastic recipes.
Reviewed in The Church Times