[Sca-cooks] Book info to Johnna?

[Johnna Holloway]

Looks interesting. Woolgar's review is below.

   SABINE KARG (ed.). Medieval food traditions in Northern Europe  
(Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and  
History 12). 230 pages, 63 b&w & colour illustrations, 45 tables.  
2007. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark; 978-87-7602-065-1  
hardback DKK300.

The scope of this volume is narrower than its title suggests, but it  
is nonetheless an important collaborative advance, containing the  
first fruits of the HANSA Network Project, established in 2001 by a  
group of archaeobotanists. Focused on countries and urban centres with  
links to Hanseatic trade (although it excludes those in England,  
Flanders and Russia) between AD 1160 and 1650, it has brought together  
extensive work with botanical remains with a view to discerning common  
points of reference across the region. The contributions take a  
standard form, with seven chapters principally on food consumption in  
the Hanseatic towns of northern Germany, northern Poland, Estonia,  
Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, concluding with a brief chapter  
synthesising results. The book concentrates on some 175 plants, from  
156 species, largely food plants, both cultivated and wild, as well as  
some arable weeds and a few ornamental plants or plants with  
industrial use. One of the achievements is a common pattern of  
recording, underpinned by linguistic work (word-lists for plants in  
English, Latin and the seven languages of the participants are  
included): the volume itself is in English, with an extensive and  
welcome bibliography principally of site reports from each of the  
countries.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3284/is_318_82/ai_n31909152/

talked about here

http://www.nnu.dk/makro/makrouk3.htm

I've interlibrary loaned it in. It wasn't available or turning up last  
year when I did the Viking/Scand. article for TI or I would have  
turned it up then.

I searched that subject heading I know. I suspect in fact just weeks  
ahead of the book being catalogued.

We'll have to ask if Devra will carry it.



Johnnae

On May 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Carol Smith wrote:

>
> (Sorry for the bandwidth, but...)
>
> Dear Johnna:
>
> I discovered a book titled "Medieval Food Traditions in Northern  
> Europe", published by the National Museum in Denmark (2007).  How  
> useful is it?
>
> Regards,
> Brekke