SC - Anglo Saxon Appetites

[Christina Nevin]

Saluti

For all those who are interested in Anglo-Saxon food, the latest offering
from my Oxbow book news:

"Anglo Saxon Appetites  
Magennis, Hugh
Old English poetry is rich in references to feasting. However, most such
references concentrate on drinking rather than on food. This book seeks out
allusions to eating in A-S literature, detecting A-S attitudes to food, and
its place in early medieval Christian teachings. the significance of
drinking in poetry is also considered. Discusses Germanic feasts, images of
eating in Beowulf, Grendel's eating habits, drunkenness and gluttony in
Christian teaching, and metaphorical consumption of 'bitter drinks', good
food and evil food, the spiritual food of the Eucharist and of divine
teaching.
195pp   Four Courts Press 1999  ISBN: 1851823824
L40/$65"

but about $46 on www.bookfinder.com  Amazon.com also lists the table of
contents.

Al Vostro e al Servizio del Sogno
Lucretzia

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versifiers" - Aretino, 1536 
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