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Medieval Greece. References and resources.

 

NOTE: See also the files: Byzantine-msg, fd-Byzantine-msg, cl-Byzantine-msg, fd-Greece-msg, olives-msg, lamb-mutton-msg, wine-msg.

 

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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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