Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition

by C.M. Woolgar

Book Overview

Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly: historians have addressed sources in new ways; material from a wide range of sites has been processed by zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists; and scientific techniques, newly applied to the medieval period, are opening up possibilities for understanding the cumulative effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273499
• ISBN13: 9780199273492
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.8"