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edited by W. Mayer and S. Trzcionka

Byzantina Australiensia vol. 15 (Brisbane 2005)

ISBN: 1 876503 18 1; ISSN: 0725-3079

ix + 216 pages

Australasian price: $44 including postage
All other countries: $Aus49.90 including postage

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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.
 

 

S. Malmberg	Visualising Hierarchy at Imperial Banquets
A.A. Demosthenous	The Scholar and the Partridge: Attitudes Relating to Nutritional Goods in the Twelfth Century from the Letters of the Scholar John Tzetzes
A. Stone	Eustathius and the Wedding Banquet for Alexios Porphyrogennetos
L. Garland	The Rhetoric of Gluttony and Hunger in Twelfth-century Byzantium
D. Dzino	Sabairarius: Beer, Wine and Ammianus Marcellinus
P. Tuffin & M. McEvoy	Steak à la Hun: Food, Drink and Dietary Habits in Ammianus Marcellinus
J. Haldon	Feeding the Army: Food and Transport in Byzantium, ca 600-1100
J. Fitzpatrick	(Not Sailing) to Byzantium: Metropolis, Hinterland and Frontier in the Transformation of the Roman Empire
M. Martin	Communal Meals in the Late Antique Synagogue
S. Weingarten	Children's Foods in the Talmudic Literature
S. Trzcionka	Calypso's Cauldron: The Ritual Ingredients of Early-Byzantine Love Spells
K. Parry	Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The Transmission of a Regimen
A.N.J. Louvaris	Fast and Abstinence in Byzantium

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