Pilgrims to Table: Food Consumption in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Biebel, Elizabeth M.
Pilgrims to Table: Food Consumption in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal, eds. Food and Eating in Medieval Europe (London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1998), pp. 15-26.
- Description
- Surveys references to food in CT, arguing that they capitalize on traditional associations of the "feminized Christ" and butchered animals.
- In general terms, references to food recall the spiritual associations of pilgrimage and indicate character: individuals who eat vegetables are depicted as more upstanding than meat eaters.
- Contributor
- Carlin, Martha, ed.
- Rosenthal, Joel T., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Food and Eating in Medieval Europe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.