A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance
University of Chicago Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-226-39575-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-39576-0
Library of Congress Classification GT2850.J4313 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1209409024
Cloth: 978-0-226-39575-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-39576-0
Library of Congress Classification GT2850.J4313 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1209409024
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.
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