Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination - Tapa blanda

Freedman, Paul

 
9780300151350: Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
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ISBN 10: 0300151357 ISBN 13: 9780300151350
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2009

Sinopsis

How medieval Europe’s infatuation with expensive, fragrant, and exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and the discovery of new worlds

The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products, including ambergris and musk. Ultimately, the spice quest led to imperial missions that were to change world history.

This engaging book explores the demand for spices: why were they so popular, and why so expensive?  Paul Freedman surveys the history, geography, economics, and culinary tastes of the Middle Ages to uncover the surprisingly varied ways that spices were put to use--in elaborate medieval cuisine, in the treatment of disease, for the promotion of well-being, and to perfume important ceremonies of the Church. Spices became symbols of beauty, affluence, taste, and grace, Freedman shows, and their expense and fragrance drove the engines of commerce and conquest at the dawn of the modern era.

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Paul Freedman is Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University. His previous books include Images of the Medieval Peasant, The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, and Food: The History of Taste.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300151357
ISBN 13 
9780300151350
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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ISBN 10:  0300111991 ISBN 13:  9780300111996
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2008
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