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Medieval Greece. References and resources.
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:02:00 +0200
From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
Subject: Re: SC - Medieval Greece
>> I have been looking all over the internet for info on
>> what life was like in the Greek middle ages--food, clothing, occupations,
>> daily life, etc--for a book I'm writing, but I haven't found anything.
>> Jennifer.
Well, I've got a few links to websites about ancient Greece here
http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/links.html - food
http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/links2.html - history
Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists, or The Sophists at Dinner. Tr. by Charles
Burton Gulick. Wm. Heinemann, Ltd. London. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New
York, 1927. Ed. by E. Capps, T.E. Page, W.H.D. Rouse. The Loeb Classical
Library. 7 volumes dating from circa 228 A.D., containing a great deal of
information on the wines and foods of ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. He
also talks about games, sports, social life, etc.
Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
cindy at thousandeggs.com
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:45:01 +0100
From: TG <gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject: Re: SC - Medieval Greece
<< I have been looking all over the internet for info on what life was
like in the Greek middle ages--food,clothing, occupations, daily life,
etc--for a book I'm writing, but I haven't found anything. >>
I fear, then you will have to go the _traditional_ way and look for
books and articles ;-)
Here are some candidates, that might help:
Paviot, J.: Cuisine grecque et cuisine turque selon l'expérience des
voyageurs (XVe-XVIe siècles). In: Bryer, A./ Ursinus, M. (eds.):
Manzikert to Lepanto. The Byzantine World and the Turks 1071-1571.
Amsterdam 1991 (Byzantinische Forschungen 16).
You might want to look for some of the works of Martin Crusius,
Professor in Tuebingen around 1600, who was (one of) the first to do
studies of the culture and language of the newer Greece: the first
philhellenist of his time. (But you need to know at least three
languages: Latin, Greek, and German.)
Databases like copac.ac.uk point to titles worth checking, e.g.:
TI- Medieval Peloponnesian bibliography for the period until the Turkish
Conquest of the 15th century (A.D. 396-1460) = Mesaionike Peloponnesiake
vivliographia gia ten periodo mechri ten Tourkike kataktese tou 15ou
aiona (396-1460 m. Ch.)
AU- Savvides Alexes G. K.
SE- Mikre myriovivlos ; 7
PU- Athena : Vivliopoleio ton vivliophilon
PY- 1990
PD- 64p ; 17cm
LA- Greek, Modern [1453-]
IS- 9602620064
NT- Includes summary in Greek
Mesaionike Peloponnesiake vivliographia gia ten periodo mechri ten
Tourkike kataktese tou 15ou aiona (396-1460 m. Ch.)
KW- Peloponnesus (Greece) - History - Medieval period - Bibliography
KW- Greece - History - 323-1453 - Bibliography
HL- Birmingham ; Cambridge ; SAS
TI- Travellers to Greece and Constantinople : ancient monuments and old
traditions in medieval travellers' tales
AU- Vin J. P. A. van der
AU- Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten
SE- Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut te
Istanbul ; 49
PU- Istanbul : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul
PY- 1980
PD- 2v, ix, 751 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 27 cm, pbk. : set
LA- English, French , German
IS- 9062580491
NT- Texts in English and French
KW- Istanbul (Turkey) - Description and travel, Early works to 1800
KW- Greece - Description and travel, Early works to 1800
KW- Greece - Antiquities, Early works to 1800
KW- Tales, Medieval
HL- Cambridge ; Edinburgh ; Manchester ; SAS
There seems to be more literature on food and cookery in classical
antiquity.
Th.
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