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A second handbook of Anglo-Saxon food & drink : production & distribution

"Food production for home consumption was the basis of economic activity throughout the Anglo-Saxon period and ensuring access to an adequate food supply was a constant preoccupation. Used as payment and a medium of trade, food was the basis of the Anglo-Saxons' system of finance and admin...

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Main Author: Hagen, Ann.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, England : Anglo-Saxon Books, 1995.
Subjects and Genres:
Anglo-Saxons > Food > England.
Food habits > England > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
England > Social life and customs > To 1066.
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
  • Presentation of material
  • FOOD PRODUCTION: Cereal crops
  • Vegetables, herbs, and fungi
  • Fruit and nuts
  • Cattle
  • Sheep
  • Goats
  • Pigs
  • Poultry and eggs
  • Wild animals and birds
  • Honey
  • Fish and molluscs [mollusks]
  • Imported food
  • Tabooed food
  • Provision of a water supply
  • Fermented drinks
  • FOOD DISTRIBUTION: Food and administration
  • Measures
  • Theft
  • Food supply for monastic communities and religious households
  • The food supply in towns
  • Provision of food supply away from home
  • Hospitality and charity
  • Conclusion.

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