SC - BMR: Laszlovszky, ed., Tender Meat under the Saddle (Berend)

[Sandra Kisner]

I didn't think I should post the entire review to the list, but I will forward
it to anyone who is interested.  Berend was rather disappointed with the book.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu

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Jozsef Laszlovszky, ed.  <i>Tender Meat under the Saddle: 
Customs of Eating, Drinking and Hospitality among Conquering 
Hungarians and Nomadic Peoples</i>.  Medium Aevum Quotidianum 
sonderband 7.  Krems: Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 1998.  ISBN 3-
90-1094-10-5.

   Reviewed by Nora Berend
        Goldsmiths College, University of London
        hss01nb at gold.ac.uk 


The volume contains seven articles that have been given as 
papers at a conference organized by the College of Commerce, 
Catering and Tourism, the Society of Old Hungarian Culture and 
the Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Eotvos 
Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. The articles have been 
translated into English by Alice M. Choyke and Laszlo 
Bartosiewicz. The book deals with various aspects of the eating 
habits of pastoral nomads of the Hungarian migration period 
(that culminated in the Hungarian conquest in the late ninth 
century) and the Middle Ages. Its emphasis is on what one can 
learn from archaeological remains.