Includes bibliographical references and index. Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
Contents:
Chapter 13. Gendering Fasting: The Medieval Battles of Flesh and Lent / Chapter 1. From Kitab al-tabij to the Llibre de Sent Sovi: Continuities and Shifts in the Earliest Iberian Cooking Manuals / Ana Pairet. Chapter 2. Food and Death: Foodways and Communities in the Danza general de la muerte / Michelle M. Hamilton and Mara Morrs -- Chapter 3. "Los que comedes mi pan": Food References in the Romancero / Hilary Pomeroy -- Chapter 4. Magical Morsels: Food in Morisco Aljamiado Incantations / Veronica Menaldi. Part II: Food Choices: Ideals and Practices in Monastic and Lay Communities. Chapter 5. Notions of Nutrition and the Properties of Food in the Middle Ages / Donna M. Rogers -- Chapter 6. Alleviating Hunger without Pleasing the Palate: The Dietetic Proposal of the Cistercian Order in the First Half of the Twelfth Century / Antoni Riera i Melis -- Chapter 7. Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Flavors in Benedictine Cuisine in Catalonia at the End of the Middle Ages / Ramon A. Banegas Lopez -- Chapter 8. Breaking Nonnatural Bread: Alimentary Hygiene and Radical Individualism in Juan de Avi·on’s Medicina sevillana / Michael Solomon -- Chapter 9. Eating for Success: Where, When, and What to Eat in Early Modern Spain / Patricia Moore-Martnez. Part III: Food as Fetish: Gendering Sexual Desire through Food. Chapter 10. "A Whim for Strawberries": At the Literary Table in Les quinze joies de mariage / Nelly Labere -- Chapter 11. Have a Heart!: Love, Lust, and the Properties of Heart Consumption from Guillem de Cabestany to Curial e Guelfa / Montserrat Piera -- Chapter 12. Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Iberian Texts / Amy I. Aronson -- Chapter 13. Gendering Fasting: The Medieval Battles of Flesh and Lent / Ana Pairet.
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