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• Authors: Andrzej Wicher

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Paradoxes Connected with Consuming Food in Middle Ages

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Andrzej Wicher Paradoxes Connected with Consuming Food in Middle Ages The article is an interpretation of a late medieval Polish poem written by a relatively unknown poet by the name of Slota who is known to have been associated with king Wiadyslaw Jagiello's court. The poem, On Behaving at the Table, belongs to the popular medieval genre of didactic works teaching rules of proper behaviour while consuming food. Though the poem is not a particularly remarkable one, it nevertheless contains a collection of popular social stereotypes which are considered in a broader cultural context. Particular attention is devoted to the questions of necessity and coincidentality, relationships between social classes and their evolution, the role of a woman within the framework of courtly culture as well as to the phenomenology of consumption in the medie­val context. The author draws from such critical works as those of Teresa Michalowska, Norbert Elias and Do­uglas Gray. The article also compares the Polish poem with selected works of English and Italian medieval literature.

EN

Andrzej Wicher Paradoxes Connected with Consuming Food in Middle Ages The article is an interpretation of a late medieval Polish poem written by a relatively unknown poet by the name of Slota who is known to have been associated with king Wiadyslaw Jagiello's court. The poem, On Behaving at the Table, belongs to the popular medieval genre of didactic works teaching rules of proper behaviour while consuming food. Though the poem is not a particularly remarkable one, it nevertheless contains a collection of popular social stereotypes which are considered in a broader cultural context. Particular attention is devoted to the questions of necessity and coincidentality, relationships between social classes and their evolution, the role of a woman within the framework of courtly culture as well as to the phenomenology of consumption in the medie­val context. The author draws from such critical works as those of Teresa Michalowska, Norbert Elias and Do­uglas Gray. The article also compares the Polish poem with selected works of English and Italian medieval literature.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach / Śląsk Sp. z o.o. Wydawnictwo Naukowe
• Journal: ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 10

Dates

published

2005-01-01

Contributors

author

Andrzej Wicher