Food and feast in premodern outlaw tales. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo.
• Editors: Elmes, Melissa Ridley; Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin
• Contents: 1 Introduction 1 MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES AND KRISTIN BOVAIRD-ABBO 2 Grendel’s Eucharist: An Outlaw’s Last Supper 13 ERIC R. CARLSON 3 Food, Feasts, and Temperance: The Social Contracts of “Mete and Drink” in The Tale of Gamelyn 30 RENÉE WARD 4 Bread Without Onions: Winning the Crusades through French Cuisine in Honorat Bovet’s 1398 Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun [Apparition of Master Jean de Meun] 55 SYLVIA GROVE 5 Of Courtesy and Community: Food and Feasting in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode 75 SHERRON LUX 6 The Preparation and Consumption of Food as Signifiers of Class and Gender Identity in Selected Premodern Texts and Examples of the Robin Hood Cinematic Canon 93 LORRAINE KOCHANSKE STOCK 7 “So Shall We Take Our Dinner Sweet”: When the Greenwood Consumes the Outlaw 127 MARYBETH RUETHER-WU 8 Robin Hood’s Poached Feasting in Context: Poor Knights, Disguised Kings, and Romance Parody in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode 146 MARK TRUESDALE 9 The Poached Feast and the Kingly Blow: The Question of Courtesy in Late Medieval King and Commoner Narratives 169 S. MELISSA WINDERS AND SARAH HARLAN-HAUGHEY 10 Acting Out(Law): Feasts, Outlawry, and Identity Constructions in Two Shakespearean Comedies 199 MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES 11 Early Modern Fishing Practices and Seafood Culture in Robin Hood’s Fishing 222 JASON HOGUE 12 “Bread With Danger Purchased”: Hunger, Plenty, and the Outlaw on the Early Modern Stage 245 MATT WILLIAMSON
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933526927; Outlaws in literature; Food in literature; Outlaws -- History; Food -- History; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000372137; 9781000372106; 9780429275180
• Related ISBNs: 9780367224905
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