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The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe (The Food Series)
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| #910047 in Books | 2007-03-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 248 pages||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| The Banquet is surprisingly accessible to readers of all backgrounds|By Midwest Book Review|Professor of History Ken Albala presents The Banquet, an examination of the tradition of fine and extravagant dining in Western Europe during 1520-1660. During this era, banquets were used to display a host's wealth and power, gather nobles from disparate places together, and disseminate||
“This engrossing work covers a great deal of culinary ground, and will interest many readers. . . . This is a truly fascinating look at how people ate four hundred years ago.”-- Sixteenth Century Journal
The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the banquets of nobles, royalty, and popes? What did they eat and how did they eat it?
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