Foodways and daily life in medieval Anatolia
Subtitle: a new social history
By: by Nicolas Trépanier
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780292759299; 9780292761896
Subjects: Food habits; History; Food; Civilization; HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire; COOKING / History
Description: "This book investigates daily life in Anatolia during the fourteenth century, the dawn of the Ottoman era, through the many ways in which humans experience food. This includes meals and the social interactions that they entail, of course, but also the production activities of peasants and gardeners, the exchanges of food between the common folk, merchants and the state, and the religious landscape that unfolds around food-related beliefs and practices. Using an array of sources ranging from hagiographies to archaeology and from Sufi poetry to endowment deeds, the resulting study presents a broad picture of a society's daily life and worldviews through the multiplicity of its interactions with food, in a style that both scholars and non-specialists will enjoy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; title: A Note on Transliteration; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. Food Production; title: Chapter 2. Food Exchanges; title: Chapter 3. Food Consumption; title: Chapter 4. Food and Religion; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix: Sources; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.