Charlemagne’s Table: The Carolingian Royal Court and Food Culture
Cullen J. Chandler
The royal court of Charlemagne was the center gravity for Frankish political culture in late eighth and early ninth centuries. Borrowing concepts from anthropology aimed at understanding cultural meanings food practices, this paper addresses sense community king his courtiers fostered. A study eating habits court, including who present, what they ate, sources food, abstinence eating, reveals Christian aristocratic, even masculine, nature that identity.
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