Research Catalog

Title

Feast, fast or famine : food and drink in Byzantium / edited by Wendy Mayer and Silke Trzcionka.

Publication

Brisbane, Australia : Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Mayer, Wendy, 1960-
• Trzcionka, Silke
• Australian Association for Byzantine Studies

Description

215 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The theme was food and drink in Byzantium. Published selectively in the present volume, the papers of the conference are augmented by contributions from international scholars. While some papers address the use of food directly (children's diet, fasting) or tangentially (in love spells), or discuss philosophical approaches towards food (vegetarianism), other papers in this volume examine the topic from another perspective: the role and perception of food and drink - and their consumption - in society. Yet others examine issues of supply (military logistics) and the role it played in shaping Byzantium. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of food, in late antique and Byzantine society, in Byzantine rhetoric, in magic in late antiquity and in the Jews in early Byzantium.

Series Statement

Byzantina Australiensia, 0725-3079 ; 15

Uniform Title

Byzantina Australiensia 15.

Alternative Title

Food and drink in Byzantium

Subject

• Food habits > Byzantine Empire > History
• Byzantine Empire > Social life and customs
• Byzantine Empire > Civilization

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preliminary Material / Wendy Mayer and Silke Trzcionka -- Introduction / Silke Trzcionka -- Visualising Hierarchy at Imperial Banquets / Simon Malmberg -- The Scholar and the Partridge: Attitudes relating to nutritional goods in the twelfth century from the letters of the scholar John Tzetzes / Anthoullis A. Demosthenous -- Eustathios and the Wedding Banquet for Alexios Porphyrogennetos / Andrew Stone -- The Rhetoric of Gluttony and Hunger in twelfth-century Byzantium / Lynda Garland -- Sabaiarius: Beer, wine and Ammianus Marcellinus / Danijel Dzino -- Steak à la Hun: Food, drink, and dietary habits in Ammianus Marcellinus / Paul Tuffin and Meaghan McEvoy -- Feeding the Army: Food and transport in Byzantium, ca 600-1100 / John Haldon -- (Not Sailing) to Byzantium: Metropolis, hinterland and frontier in the transformation of the Roman Empire / John Fitzpatrick -- Communal Meals in the late antique Synagogue / Matthew Martin -- Children's Foods in the Talmudic Literature / Susan Weingarten -- Calypso's Cauldron: The ritual ingredients of early-Byzantine love spells / Silke Trzcionka -- Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The transmission of a regimen / Ken Parry -- Addendum Fast and Abstinence in Byzantium / Athanasius N.J. Louvaris -- Modem Author Index / Wendy Mayer and Silke Trzcionka -- General Index / Wendy Mayer and Silke Trzcionka.

ISBN

1876503181

OCLC

• 60614913
• SCSB-11470162

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library