[Sca-cooks] cultural context

[Volker Bach]

Along with the other books recommended, for thirteenth-century spain you may want to, look at the recommendations (de modo comedendi) made by Petrus Alfonsi in his disciplina clericalis. 

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/alfonsi.disciplina.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Alphonsi

According to the Wikipedia article, there is an English translation around: The scholar's guide. A translation of the twelfth-century Disciplina Clericalis of Pedro Alfonso, by Joseph Ramon Jones and John Esten Keller, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1969. 

Don't know how good it is, since I'm working with a German one and the online original, though. The part about eating is fairly short, but the fables and exempla flesh it out a bit. 

YIS

Giano


--- Beth Harper <lyndyn29 at gmail.com> schrieb am Di, 27.9.2011:

> Von: Beth Harper <lyndyn29 at gmail.com>
> Betreff: [Sca-cooks] cultural context
> An: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Datum: Dienstag, 27. September, 2011 05:46 Uhr
> Hi! I'm delurking with a request for
> book suggestions.
> 
> I'm doing my first solo feast in February, after years of
> doing
> individual dishes/courses/meals, mostly under other cooks
> but also for
> potlucks and so forth. I think I have a good handle on
> medieval
> *cookery* - redacting, techniques, flavor profiles, etc. -
> but the
> more I get into this research, the more I realize I'm
> lacking a
> grounding in *food culture* - order of service, dining
> practices,
> food-related ritual, religious and superstitious beliefs,
> what dishes
> would (or would never) be served with what others,
> aesthetics of
> presentation, etc. Big picture stuff.
> 
> The feast is 13c. Catalan (Sent Sovi is my main source, and
> it's got a
> little bit of this stuff in the preface, but just not
> enough).
> Material specifically about Spain would be SUPER AWESOME,
> but an
> broader view of Western Europe would be lovely too. Where
> should I
> start?
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> Liepa Jonaskaite
> Incipient Shire of Villaleon,
> Kingdom of the Outlands
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