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A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance
A Feast of Words Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance
Author: Michel Jeanneret
The aim of this work is to capture the importance that people in the 16th century attributed to meals and conversation at the table. Jeanneret starts by focusing on the discourse of humanists about food and feasts and then goes on to deal specifically with table-talk. He shows how they liked to represent extravagant banquets, but at the same tim...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780745607795
ISBN-10: 0745607799
Publication Date: 6/27/1991
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Polity Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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