In this episode we are going to discuss what medieval city dwellers ate and bust some myths doing so.
Often Medieval People are depicted as being underfed, or having a unsophisticated palate both of these assertions are untrue.
While the medieval diet was different to ours today, lacking many of the important new world staples it was robust, plentiful and full of flavour.
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Links and Sources
CHILDHOOD DIET AND MOBILITYAT MEDIEVAL (1240s AD) by ARIANA GUGORA B.A. University of Florida, 2011
Food Composition and Production in Medieval England and Their Mutual Influences Wenda Qin
Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy by Katherine A. McIver,
The Peasant Diet: Image and Reality by Paul Freedman
Shifts in fasting in medieval France
How Medieval Chefs Tackled Meat-Free Days
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 – David Nicholas
Spice – Jack Turner ISBN 0006551734
Medieval Cookery Websites
Suggested Cookbooks
Seven Hundred Years of English Cooking – Maxime McKendry
All the Kings Cooks – The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VII At Hamtpon Court Palance – Peter Brears ISBN 0285635336
Cooking & Dining In Medieval England – Peter Brears ISBN 9781903018873
The Medieval Kitchen – Recipes from France and Italy – Onile Redon, Franciose Saban, & Silvano Serventi ISBN 0226706850
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Our channel is intended to discuss the skills needed to reenact, demonstrate and teach. We also discuss the historic context and research behind our findings.
Popula Urbanum is latin for people of the city. We are recreating the burgeoning middle classes in the 14th century.
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