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Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul

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  • © 2002

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  1. Bonnie Effros
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Ritual Significance of Feasting in the Formation of Christian Communities

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 9-24

  4. Food, Drink, and the Expression of Clerical Identity

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 25-37

  5. Gender and Authority: Feasting and Fasting in Early Medieval Monasteries for Women

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 39-54

  6. Food as a Source of Healing and Power

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 55-67

  7. Funerary Feasting in Early Medieval Gaul and Neighboring Regions

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 69-91

  8. Epilogue

    • Bonnie Effros
    Pages 93-95

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 97-174
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About this book

Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul exposes the manner in which feasting and fasting, in other words, ritualized actions not performed solely for the purpose of nourishment, were central to social interaction in Gaul both prior and subsequent to Christianization of the mixed population of Franks and Gallo-Romans. In exploring these issues using a multidisciplinary methodology, Effros suggests that scholars may assess historical manifestations of the use of food and drink to create and reinforce the social hierarchy. Effros addresses the tensions between monastic and lay communities and focuses on patronage through food and drink as a source of informal power, a subject too often overlooked in favour of institutional structures more familiar to twentieth-century historians.

About the author

BONNIE EFFROS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

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