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Darrera modificació: 2023-11-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Colbertaldo, Roberta - Ott, Christine, "Fat Worlds: Feasters and Loafers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe", Food & History, 21/1 [= Fat Worlds. Feasters and Loafers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gourmands et fainéants dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne, ed. Colbertaldo, Roberta - Ott, Christine] (2023), 11-32.
- Resum
- In this introductory article, we aim to complicate conventional narratives about premodern fatphilia, arguing that the bodily dimension of alimentary abundance has been neglected or reduced to the dichotomy of a medieval, “excessive” and “open” body on the one hand, and the increasingly controlled body that resulted from the Reformation and “bourgeoisification” on the other.
Without questioning Bakhtin's and Elias's important arguments, we claim that their theses on carnivalesque counterculture and the process of civilization have sometimes been used to further a dichotomous argument: popular culture versus high culture; hatred versus glorification of the body; fasting versus Carnival. After an overview of the state of the art concerning premodern Carnival (and Lent), premodern representations of Cockaigne, and premodern fat bodies, we present the contributions to this volume, which aims to analyse the complexity and polysemy of different representations of “Fat Worlds” from their first appearance in the twelfth century until the seventeenth century.
- Matèries
- Alimentació
Medicina
- URL
- https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.FOO ...
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