C M Woolgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C M Woolgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | C M |
| FAMILY NAME | Woolgar |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLGAR C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0418-0718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mazers and the drinking culture of late medieval England
Mazers, drinking vessels often made of maple, were an important part of the material culture of medieval England from at least the first half of the twelfth century. They were significant for the range of meanings they brought to the consumption of drink. In some elite households, they had prestigious associations; elsewhere across society, they made important connections between families, in terms of inheritance and identity, and helped perpetua…
Meanings of food in medieval Britain and Ireland
Food is central to our understanding of the social, economic and cultural history of the medieval past. Its study sits at the nexus of disciplines, of different classes of sources and data, and of different academic approaches, from studies of historical documentation, to the physical remains of food waste, retrieved from archaeological excavation, to the chemical analysis of human bone in isotope studies or organic residues in cooking vessels, a…
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London
Medieval food and colour
For medieval people, colour provided important information about the nature of objects, and that was no less true of what they ate than of anything else. On one level colour might expose moral and spiritual connotations; on another it might offer indications of characteristics of a foodstuff according to medieval humoral theories. Moreover, it was to form an important element in the elite cuisine that developed across Europe from 1200 and perhaps…
The Senses and the English Reformation, by Matthew Milner
Medieval manuals required confessors to ask their charges about the sins they had committed through each of their senses: the operation of the senses was overwhelmingly a moral issue, and to live well was to control one’s senses. Texts such as these tell us about medieval notions of sensation in practice. At the same time, there was a considerable literature about the high culture of cognition—how philosophers and theologians believed perception …
Royal Taste
Medieval Domesticity
This volume arises from a conference organised jointly by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York and its counterpart at Fordham University in March 2005. The offerings cluster round an essay by Felicity Riddy, arguing that ‘domesticity’ has its origins in the fourteenth-century towns of England, rather than in the seventeenth century. In an introductory chapter, looking at ideas of home, housing and the household, the editors a…
Survival and Discord in Medieval Society
Gifts of food in late medieval England
Gifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part of commensality, sociability, hospitality and charity, food gifts underpinned customary patterns of life; they developed networks of relationships, establishing good lordship, and played an important role in negotiations. Patterns of giving demonstrate the distinctiveness and appropriateness of some categories of foodstuff, …
Food and the middle ages
The study of food in the middle ages attracted much interest among antiquarians from the eighteenth century on. New perspectives came with the growth of social and economic history. Over the last two decades, re-evaluation of historical sources, along with contributions from other disciplines, especially archaeology, the archaeological sciences, anthropology and sociology, have changed the possibilities for this area of research. The study of coo…
Plenti and grase
The medieval park
Perception and Action in Medieval Europe
This is a wide-ranging book, encompassing the whole of Europe from late Antiquity to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; its subjects are complex, elusive, and of considerable importance for understanding medieval society. The kernel of Professor Kleinschmidt's argument is that both perception and action are concepts that are culturally dependent; and that there was a fundamental shift in the nature of perception, moving from one in which th…
Group Diets in Late Medieval England
In late medieval England, there were two principal reasons for group diets, that is the fashioning or restriction of consumption for a common purpose. Foremost was the link between diet, religion, and virtue with the state of the body beyond the physical. The moral impact of this belief was wide; the dietary consequences were in practice restricted to that part of the population, a minority, who had regular access to meat and who could afford sub…
Food in medieval England
'Food in Medieval England' draws on research across different disciplines to present a picture of the English diet from the early Saxon period up to 1540. It uses a range of sources, from the historical records of medieval farms, abbeys, & households both great & small, to animal bones, human remains, & plants from archaeological sites
A History of the Senses
Journal Article A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace Get access A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace, by Robert Jütte, tr. J. Lynn (Oxford: Polity P., 2005; pp. 395. £50; pb. £18.99). CM Woolgar CM Woolgar University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 491, April 2006, Pages 652–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/c…
Household Accounts from Medieval England, I
The Wellington papers database
Two Oxford Archives in the Early Seventeenth Century
Food in medieval England
'Food in Medieval England' draws on research across different disciplines to present a picture of the English diet from the early Saxon period up to 1540. It uses a range of sources, from the historical records of medieval farms, abbeys, & households both great & small, to animal bones, human remains, & plants from archaeological sites
Food and the middle ages
The study of food in the middle ages attracted much interest among antiquarians from the eighteenth century on. New perspectives came with the growth of social and economic history. Over the last two decades, re-evaluation of historical sources, along with contributions from other disciplines, especially archaeology, the archaeological sciences, anthropology and sociology, have changed the possibilities for this area of research. The study of coo…
A History of the Senses
Journal Article A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace Get access A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace, by Robert Jütte, tr. J. Lynn (Oxford: Polity P., 2005; pp. 395. £50; pb. £18.99). CM Woolgar CM Woolgar University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 491, April 2006, Pages 652–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/c…
Gifts of food in late medieval England
Gifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part of commensality, sociability, hospitality and charity, food gifts underpinned customary patterns of life; they developed networks of relationships, establishing good lordship, and played an important role in negotiations. Patterns of giving demonstrate the distinctiveness and appropriateness of some categories of foodstuff, …
Medieval food and colour
For medieval people, colour provided important information about the nature of objects, and that was no less true of what they ate than of anything else. On one level colour might expose moral and spiritual connotations; on another it might offer indications of characteristics of a foodstuff according to medieval humoral theories. Moreover, it was to form an important element in the elite cuisine that developed across Europe from 1200 and perhaps…
Mazers and the drinking culture of late medieval England
Mazers, drinking vessels often made of maple, were an important part of the material culture of medieval England from at least the first half of the twelfth century. They were significant for the range of meanings they brought to the consumption of drink. In some elite households, they had prestigious associations; elsewhere across society, they made important connections between families, in terms of inheritance and identity, and helped perpetua…
The Wellington papers database
Two Oxford Archives in the Early Seventeenth Century
The Wellington papers database
Household Accounts from Medieval England, I
Group Diets in Late Medieval England
In late medieval England, there were two principal reasons for group diets, that is the fashioning or restriction of consumption for a common purpose. Foremost was the link between diet, religion, and virtue with the state of the body beyond the physical. The moral impact of this belief was wide; the dietary consequences were in practice restricted to that part of the population, a minority, who had regular access to meat and who could afford sub…
Food in medieval England
'Food in Medieval England' draws on research across different disciplines to present a picture of the English diet from the early Saxon period up to 1540. It uses a range of sources, from the historical records of medieval farms, abbeys, & households both great & small, to animal bones, human remains, & plants from archaeological sites
A History of the Senses
Journal Article A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace Get access A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace, by Robert Jütte, tr. J. Lynn (Oxford: Polity P., 2005; pp. 395. £50; pb. £18.99). CM Woolgar CM Woolgar University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 491, April 2006, Pages 652–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/c…
Perception and Action in Medieval Europe
This is a wide-ranging book, encompassing the whole of Europe from late Antiquity to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; its subjects are complex, elusive, and of considerable importance for understanding medieval society. The kernel of Professor Kleinschmidt's argument is that both perception and action are concepts that are culturally dependent; and that there was a fundamental shift in the nature of perception, moving from one in which th…
The medieval park
Gifts of food in late medieval England
Gifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part of commensality, sociability, hospitality and charity, food gifts underpinned customary patterns of life; they developed networks of relationships, establishing good lordship, and played an important role in negotiations. Patterns of giving demonstrate the distinctiveness and appropriateness of some categories of foodstuff, …
Food and the middle ages
The study of food in the middle ages attracted much interest among antiquarians from the eighteenth century on. New perspectives came with the growth of social and economic history. Over the last two decades, re-evaluation of historical sources, along with contributions from other disciplines, especially archaeology, the archaeological sciences, anthropology and sociology, have changed the possibilities for this area of research. The study of coo…
Plenti and grase
Medieval Domesticity
This volume arises from a conference organised jointly by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York and its counterpart at Fordham University in March 2005. The offerings cluster round an essay by Felicity Riddy, arguing that ‘domesticity’ has its origins in the fourteenth-century towns of England, rather than in the seventeenth century. In an introductory chapter, looking at ideas of home, housing and the household, the editors a…
Survival and Discord in Medieval Society
Royal Taste
The Senses and the English Reformation, by Matthew Milner
Medieval manuals required confessors to ask their charges about the sins they had committed through each of their senses: the operation of the senses was overwhelmingly a moral issue, and to live well was to control one’s senses. Texts such as these tell us about medieval notions of sensation in practice. At the same time, there was a considerable literature about the high culture of cognition—how philosophers and theologians believed perception …
Medieval food and colour
For medieval people, colour provided important information about the nature of objects, and that was no less true of what they ate than of anything else. On one level colour might expose moral and spiritual connotations; on another it might offer indications of characteristics of a foodstuff according to medieval humoral theories. Moreover, it was to form an important element in the elite cuisine that developed across Europe from 1200 and perhaps…
Mazers and the drinking culture of late medieval England
Mazers, drinking vessels often made of maple, were an important part of the material culture of medieval England from at least the first half of the twelfth century. They were significant for the range of meanings they brought to the consumption of drink. In some elite households, they had prestigious associations; elsewhere across society, they made important connections between families, in terms of inheritance and identity, and helped perpetua…
Meanings of food in medieval Britain and Ireland
Food is central to our understanding of the social, economic and cultural history of the medieval past. Its study sits at the nexus of disciplines, of different classes of sources and data, and of different academic approaches, from studies of historical documentation, to the physical remains of food waste, retrieved from archaeological excavation, to the chemical analysis of human bone in isotope studies or organic residues in cooking vessels, a…
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London
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