Feast: A History of Grand Eating - Hardcover

Strong, Roy

 
9780151007585: Feast: A History of Grand Eating
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151007586 ISBN 13: 9780151007585
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guests in ancient Greece to the restrained rigors of the Victorian dinner party.
Sir Roy Strong examines this cultural phenomenon with knowledge, wit, and style-beginning with the ninth century B.C., when a Babylonian emperor discreetly invited seventy thousand guests for a ten-day celebration, and ending early in the twentieth century, by which time feasts had become somewhat more modest. Always attuned to how these celebrations mirror the societies that hold them and to the way they reflect shifts in power and class, this beautifully illustrated book offers a lively and illuminating history of grand eating.
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sir Roy Strong is a highly regarded historian, columnist, critic, and broadcaster. He is the author of many books, including The Story of Britain and The Spirit of Britain, and is a regular contributor to radio and television. He lives in Herefordshire, England.


Sir Roy Strong is a highly regarded historian, columnist, critic, and broadcaster. He is the author of many books, including The Story of Britain and The Spirit of Britain, and is a regular contributor to radio and television. He lives in Herefordshire, England.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151007586
ISBN 13 
9780151007585
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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