Creating Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780312227364
Subjects: Christian rites & ceremonies; Customs; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Religious rites & ceremonies; Social history; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History; History - General History; History: World; Western Continental Europe; Medieval; Popular Culture - General; Western Europe - General; History / Medieval; Dinners and dining; Fasts and feasts; Food; France; Merovingians; Social aspects
First sentence: As Jonas of Bobbio recounted in the sixth-century Vita Columbani 1.27, the Irish saint was greatly angered on one occasion when he encountered an Alemannic group making a profane offering of ale to the pagan god Woden.