In the Belly of the Tartar Beast: The Mongols and the Medieval English Culinary Imagination
- Author / Editor
- Wolfe, Alexander Carlos.
In the Belly of the Tartar Beast: The Mongols and the Medieval English Culinary Imagination
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A70.12 (2010): n.p.
- Description
- Explores Western medieval accounts of the Mongols in the context of historic antipathy between "agricultural" societies and their "pastoral"/nomadic rivals. Includes comparative assessments of hunting practices (as seen in BD, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and "Parlement of the Thre Ages"), warfare, and cuisine.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess