The Banquet
Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16613134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison C Fleming (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1222-1223 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20479214 |
| OpenAlex | W641644233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host's wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the banquets of nobles, royalty, and popes? What did they eat and how did they eat it? In The Banquet, Ken Albala covers the transitional period between the heavily spiced and coloured cuisine of the Middle Ages and classical French haut cuisine. This development involved increasing use dairy products, a move toward lighter meats such as veal and chicken, increasing identification of national food customs, more sweetness and aromatics, and a refined aesthetic sense, surprisingly in line with the late Renaissance styles found in other arts
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Banquet · Middle Ages · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Procession · The arts · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2016 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |