A feast for the eyes
Subtitle: art, performance, and the late medieval banquet
By: Christina Normore
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780226242200; 9780226242347
Subjects: Fasts and feasts; History; Dinners and dining; Entremés; Court and courtiers; Social life and customs; Fasts and feasts in art; Dinners and dining in art
Description: Even centuries later, to read accounts of late mediaeval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where gilded stags burst into song, the Holy Church may suddenly appear to beg aid from the assembled nobles, and four and twenty musicians play within a pie. This book brings together the understudied array of surviving artworks, archival documents, chroniclers accounts and cookbooks to retrace these events and reassess the late mediaeval visual culture in which they were so highly prized.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: setting the table; title: Between the dishes; title: Spectator-spectacle; title: Efficacy and hypocrisy; title: Dining well; title: Stranger at the table; title: Wedding reception.