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Food-related Interaction among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the High and Late Middle Ages
History Compass (2013)
  • David M. Freidenreich
Abstract
Social historians of the Middle Ages can gain a richer understanding of interreligious relations by examining the ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted over food. Legal and non-legal sources from the eleventh through sixteenth centuries shed light on commercial, social, and cultural exchanges across faith communities, both in the market and at meals. These texts convey a broad spectrum of attitudes toward the food and food ways of religious foreigners, ideas whose variation reflects the contested and shifting status of minorities within Catholic Europe.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
DOI
10.1111/hic3.12101
Citation Information
David M. Freidenreich. "Food-related Interaction among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the High and Late Middle Ages" History Compass Vol. 11 Iss. 11 (2013) p. 957 - 966
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_freidenreich/69/