Food Fabulous Food or Creating Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul

Food Fabulous Food

Author: Wimmer Books Plus

This is a book for those who love to eat, love to cook, and are inspired to experiment with healthier cooking. Contains modified favorite recipes that have substituted healthier ingredients and cooking techniques while never sacrificing flavorz Charming Black and white checker motifs and clever culinary quips make this book a great addition to your cookbook collection.

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Creating Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul

Author: Bonnie Effros

Feasting and fasting rituals were a central facet of social interaction in early medieval Gaul. With the adoption of Christianity in the third and fourth centuries in cosmopolitan centers and in the fifth and sixth centuries in rural communities, clerics faced the challenge of guiding recent converts with little understanding of Christianity beyond the rudimentary catechism necessary for baptism. While priests condemned blatantly pagan celebrations, they could not eliminate the powerful networks sustained by food and drink rituals. Accommodation of existing rites did not, however, represent pagan survivals. Using contemporary saints' lives, canonical legislation, penitentials, theological tracts, monastic Rules and cemeterial remains, Bonnie Effros presents five essays addressing the ways in which clerical authors portrayed rites involving food and drink in their attempts to define membership in religious communities, strengthen their relationships with the laity, highlight gender differences, bring about the healing of the sick and maintain ties to deceased ancestors.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
* The Ritual Significance of Feasting in the Formation of Christian Community
* 1. Saints and Sacrifices in Sixth-Century Gaul; 2. Saints and the Provisioning of Plenty; 3. Defining Christian Community through the Fear of Pollution; 4. Conclusion
* Food, Drink, and the Expression of Clerical Identity
* 1. Defining Masculinity without Weapons: Amicitia among Bishops; 2. Monks and the Significance of Convivia in Ascetic Communities; 3. Amicitia between Clerics and Laymen; 4. Bishops and Civitias in Late Antique and Early Medieval Gaul; 5. Conclusion
* Gender and Authority: Feasting and Fasting in Early Medieval Monasteries
* 1. Feasting and the Power of Hospitality; 2. The Claustration of Nuns in Sixth-Century Gaul; 3. Caesarius' Rule for Nuns and the Prohibition of Convivia ; 4. Radegund of Poitiers' Relationship to Food and Drink; 5. Conclusion
* Food as a Source of Healing and Power
* 1. Healing Alternatives in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; 2. Christian Cures: Blessed Oil and Holy Relics; 3. Anthimus' Guide to a Proper Diet for a Merovingian King; 4. Conclusion
* Funerary Feasting in Merovingian Gaul
* 1. Ancient Sources and Early Medieval Practices; 2. Christian Attitudes to Funerary Meals in Early Medieval Gaul; 3. Interpreting Early Medieval Archaeological Evidence for Feasting; 4. Future Directions for Research Introduction
* The Ritual Significance of Feasting in the Formation of Christian Community
* 1. Saints and Sacrifices in Sixth-Century Gaul; 2. Saints and the Provisioning of Plenty; 3. Defining Christian Community through the Fear of Pollution; 4.Conclusion
* Food, Drink, and the Expression of Clerical Identity
* 1. Defining Masculinity without Weapons: Amicitia among Bishops; 2. Monks and the Significance of Convivia in Ascetic Communities; 3. Amicitia between Clerics and Laymen; 4. Bishops and Civitias in Late Antique and Early Medieval Gaul; 5. Conclusion
* Gender and Authority: Feasting and Fasting in Early Medieval Monasteries
* 1. Feasting and the Power of Hospitality; 2. The Claustration of Nuns in Sixth-Century Gaul; 3. Caesarius' Rule for Nuns and the Prohibition of Convivia ; 4. Radegund of Poitiers' Relationship to Food and Drink; 5. Conclusion
* Food as a Source of Healing and Power
* 1. Healing Alternatives in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; 2. Christian Cures: Blessed Oil and Holy Relics; 3. Anthimus' Guide to a Proper Diet for a Merovingian King; 4. Conclusion
* Funerary Feasting in Merovingian Gaul
* 1. Ancient Sources and Early Medieval Practices; 2. Christian Attitudes to Funerary Meals in Early Medieval Gaul; 3. Interpreting Early Medieval Archaeological Evidence for Feasting; 4. Future Directions for Research