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Medieval and Renaissance Food stuffed with gorgeous things including recipes, bibliographies, clip art and images, articles

Ravensgard Food and Culinary Arts primarily medieval, but does extend into at least the sixteenth century; includes recipes, info on herbs and spices, equipment, brewing and bibliographies

Elizabethan Food (Cindy Renfrow) a useful list of links

Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England (Folger Library) insights into the relationships between food and medicine, politics, commerce and exploration, new agricultural techniques and festivals. Enjoy...

The Renaissance at the Dinner Table (Alessandro Giacomello) a selection of original medieval and renaissance recipes, with a bibliography

Culinary Gleanings from John Gerard's Herball (1633) (Cindy Renfrow)

Shakespeare Food Frenzies an engaging alphabetical roundup

Of the Food and Diet of the English (Modern History Source Book) from William Harrison's Description of Elizabethan England (1577)

Sabina Welserin's 1553 Cookbook (Valoise Armstrong) a collection of recipes

The 'Potato Revolution', 1695-1845 (Modern History Source Book) writings on the potato

Dining: Service, Utensils and Manners (Le Poulet Gauche) a brief introduction (from a re-enacting group)

Medieval and Renaissance Brewing (Greg Lindahl) history of brewing mailing list, resources, articles and recipes...

The Pub in Literature: England's Altered State (Steven Earnshaw) looking at how pubs, alehouses etc, have appeared in English literature since Chaucer; for early modernists, includes extracts/illustrations from Shakespeare, Pepys, Hogarth, among others; also a chronology of legislation, bibliography, glossary, etc

The World of the Tavern a taught course, includes a helpful bibliography

Alehouses and Towns (Heather Thomas) a useful essay [currently unavailable, January '04]

How Much Did They Drink? (A Lynn Martin) an interesting article, covering the medieval and early modern periods

Deviant Drinking or Deviant Women? (A Lynn Martin) attitudes to drinking by women in the late medieval and early modern periods

Beer, Cultivated National Identity and Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1524-1625 (George Evans Light) examining the role of 'English ale', 'Dutch beer' and early modern nationalism

Among food and drink topics at Trade Products in Early Modern Europe:
Potato (John A Mazis)
Cod (Marguerite Ragnow)
Cloves (Cynthia Gladen)
Cinnamon (Troy David Osborne
Saffron (David Perry)
Coffee (Jonathan Good)
Tea (Thomas Breed)

The First English Coffee Houses (Modern History Source Book) extracts of primary texts, c.1670-75

Dry Drunk: the Culture of Tobacco in 17th and 18th century Europe a site to accompany an exhibition at New York Public Library in 1997. Includes pages on discovery, questions of gender, high and low culture, allegory and fantasy in smoke

A Counterblaste to Tobacco (Early English Books Online) full text of the pamphlet written by James VI & I (1604)

Capsule History of Tobacco (Gene Borio) all sorts of information, including a time line and extracts from texts

Economic Aspects of Tobacco During the Colonial Period (?, at Tobacco.org) article exploring the success of tobacco cultivation in the American colonies

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This page last updated 15 January 2004 by Sharon Howard

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